Medium Cool
Stanley Kauffmann
The New Republic, 20 September 1969
Forster’s internal drama, which I outlined above, is in fact all my outline, not in the film. It’s assumed that he has gone through what a Swedenborg would have called a “vastation,” and it’s not even assumed by Wexler – we have to assume it for him, if the picture is going to hold together at all and make any kind of progress, if the ending is to have even sophormoric bitterness.
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