The Magus (1968)
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 116m
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina
Synopsis:
An English graduate accepts a post as English teacher on a Greek island, partly to get away from his relationship with his girlfriend. There he meets a reclusive, mystical figure by the name of Conchis and his beautiful companion, and his existence comes to be increasingly in thrall to the contrivances of this magus-like personage.
Review:
John Fowles' post-modern novel is about as ripe for film treatment as Alain Robbe-Grillet's, which is not to say that there aren't images that strike the eye. In Green's hands, with the Fox behemoth looking over his shoulder, the results are self-consciously obscurantist and modishly provocative. And Michael Caine ain't no Oxford English graduate, neither.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 116m
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina
Synopsis:
An English graduate accepts a post as English teacher on a Greek island, partly to get away from his relationship with his girlfriend. There he meets a reclusive, mystical figure by the name of Conchis and his beautiful companion, and his existence comes to be increasingly in thrall to the contrivances of this magus-like personage.
Review:
John Fowles' post-modern novel is about as ripe for film treatment as Alain Robbe-Grillet's, which is not to say that there aren't images that strike the eye. In Green's hands, with the Fox behemoth looking over his shoulder, the results are self-consciously obscurantist and modishly provocative. And Michael Caine ain't no Oxford English graduate, neither.
Country: GB
Technical: col/scope 116m
Director: Guy Green
Cast: Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina
Synopsis:
An English graduate accepts a post as English teacher on a Greek island, partly to get away from his relationship with his girlfriend. There he meets a reclusive, mystical figure by the name of Conchis and his beautiful companion, and his existence comes to be increasingly in thrall to the contrivances of this magus-like personage.
Review:
John Fowles' post-modern novel is about as ripe for film treatment as Alain Robbe-Grillet's, which is not to say that there aren't images that strike the eye. In Green's hands, with the Fox behemoth looking over his shoulder, the results are self-consciously obscurantist and modishly provocative. And Michael Caine ain't no Oxford English graduate, neither.