FILM REVIEWS.
Sir-Your amusing correspondent L. D. Austin deplored a film review which referred to a racy film as "bright, farcical entertainment." The plot of that film concerned the attempts of a husband to seduce his wife. I asked Mr. Austin if he would include Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte in his censurean opera which is slightly more vicious than the film he criticised and in which two husbands try to seduce their wives. He replies that if the libretto is improved, as itehas been in one or two instances, the opera is cleansed and still remains "bright, farcical entertainment." Is Mr, Austin going to tell me that the work is so well renovated that the two husbands do not try to seduce their wives? If it is, then it is no more Cosi Fan Tutte than the film is. If it isn’t, and if the cleansing simply refers to dialogue, then his method of differentiation is not merely humbug, it is hypocrisy. In fact, using the phrase in a different sense, Mr.
Austin, too, is
JUST CURIOUS
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 4
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178FILM REVIEWS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 4
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