Solidarity Dagingstoke Workers Strike
Socialist Organiser1984 1984-02-02Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 13 →
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the story of the victimisation of Socialist Organiser supporter Alan Fraser and how the fight to defend him was sold out by the union officials. 25p plus postage from 75 Freemantle Close, Basingstoke. bears a striking resemblance to Gerard's dead sister and he is immediately drawn to her.
Beyond that the film is very short on plot but very big on style. The sets are, if anything, even more over-thetop than those of Diva. The photography is often innovalive and at times quite orcantaking, as for example, in the night time sequences filmed in the floodlit docks at Marseilles. But the film doesn't really lead anywhere.
Depardiet slugs, shouts and sulks his way through the overlong film. while Kinski has little more to do than drive around in her sports car looking beautiful.
Indeed, the most disturbing aspect of the film is the way in which women are portrayed.
Clearly a director whose film is peopled with lumpen proletarians can claim the need to portray things as they really are — sexist men, and women
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Socialist Organiser, February, 2 1984 , Page, Industrial