Friday, September 25, 2009

A Severed Head (1970)

Directed by Dick Clement
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Screen Classics by Request)

A British look at "free love" among married couples in 1970. It's an inevitably dated but good-natured comedy/drama told mainly from the point of view of husband Ian Holm. His wife is Lee Remick, who struggles to maintain a British accent, and is only moderately effective in a subdued comedic role. Claire Bloom is the most interesting character of the bunch, a psycho professor who dresses in black, wields a Japanese sword and sleeps with her (half) brother.

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