Volume 20, Number 9 · May 31, 1973
Beautiful and Damned
By Robert Mazzocco
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Ludwig
directed by Luchino Visconti
The Story of a Humble Christian
by Ignazio Silone, translated by William Weaver
Harper & Row, 206 pp., $5.95
Save the Tiger
directed by John G. Avildsen
Poor Zeffirelli. His sentimental paean to Francis of Assisi appears to be arriving at a bad moment. The hippies have disappeared, the flower children are barely a memory, the Woodstock phenomenon which blew every square's mind a few years ago at theaters across the land can't make it today on TV, the Jesus freaks are the spiritual nasties, and the only heavy changes we're experiencing are conformism and country club sophistry—the Smilin' Jack folderol of the Fifties.
Review, 3575 words
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