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Libido

1973, Movie, NR, 118 mins

Libido: Review

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Four different directors and four different writers were assigned by the Producers and Directors Guild of Australia to film short episodes on the topic "libido." The result is a mixed bag; one wonders what grades their efforts might have received had their snippets been made as a classroom project. "The Husband," directed by Murray and written by McGregor, deals with a man, Williams, who enhances his sexual relations with his wife, Neidhart, by fantasizing her engaging in extramarital sexual activities. One of his daydreams has her secretly trysting with Albiston, his best friend; another has her gang-raped by five men (in a dancelike dream set to music). When Williams leaves for work, Neidhart telephones Albiston, inviting him to join her and leaving the audience wondering whether the exotic reveries of her husband might have some substance. "The Child," written by Porter and directed by Burstall, deals with a woman, Forster, whose husband drowns in the Titanic tragedy. She begins an affair with the wordly Barry, who is deeply resented by her young son, Williams. Vacationing with Barry, Forster leaves Williams in the care of governess Morris, whom he comes to adore. When the lovers return, Williams fears that Morris will be found expendable. Upset, he wanders afield and chances on his idealized governess making love to his mother's lover. Shattered, he makes his way to a nearby river and attempts to escape his hateful confines in a rowboat. Barry, realizing the boy's state of mind, races after him and tries to leap into the boat. Williams strokes the oars strongly, and Barry, a nonswimmer, falls into the water and drowns. "The Priest," written by Keneally and directed by Schepisi, is a dialog between a love-smitten priest, Dignam, and his inamorata, nun Nevin, punctuated by flashbacks accenting their history. He is impatient to leave his vocation in order to marry; she insists that they follow the conventional, time-consuming bureaucratic route. Quarreling, the two part. "The Family Man," written by Williamson and directed by Baker, deals with a pair of Aussie rowdies who celebrate the confinement of Thompson's wife (she's just had their third child) by picking up two party girls and playing with them in Thompson's beach house. Offended by the men's uncaring attitude, the girls leave. When Thompson returns to the beach house some time later with his family, he finds that the girls have draped it with a sign accusing him of having assaulted them during his wife's stay in the hospital. All in all, an academically interesting tour de force from down under. leave a comment
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