Pauline Kael reviews The Magus (1968)
Man, I hated the book so much. I carried it all over Pickens county and couldn’t finish the piece of crap for anything. It just sat on the dashboard. My partner picked up the book, which had a picture of a woman taking her shirt off on the cover. He opened to where the bookmark was and asked ‘has she got that shirt off yet?’ No. And she never will.
Probably the only movie in which one will ever see a copy of Epson’s The Seven Types of Ambiguity.That’s a few too many types for this elaborate, trashy literary conceit, which should be eerie fun but isn’t. It’s certainly deluxe though, with Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Anna Karina, and Candice Bergen all being enigmatic on Majorca. Guy Green directed; John Fowles adapted his own novel. 20th Century-Fox. color.
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Jesus Christ, The Magus was awful. How do you make a book about a Nazi mythology sex cult boring? (See also...
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