34 - Wednesday, August 22, 1980 - North Shore News

Presumed Innocent *** (Warner Bros.) Rated R tat the Park Reval,
Vancouver Centre, Richport, Station Square, Eagle Ridge and Guildtord

Cinemas)

HAKESPEARE SAID, “‘Let’s kill all the lawyers.”
It seems that someone has taken the Bard at his word
and started with promiscuous prosecuting attorney
Carolyn Polhenus (Greta Scacchi).
Rather than ask who had a motive, you should ask who

didn’t.

in the justice department alone,
the list is staggering. It could have
been a vengeance-seeking pen ert
she sent up the river, Perhaps one
of the many men she used to tur-
ther a successful career did a
number on her. Maybe Carolyn’s
close dealings with her politicaliy
ambitious boss, Raymond Horgan
(Brian Dennehy), were too close.
Then again, Horgan’s rival for the
D.A. post, Nico Della Guardia
(Tom Mardirosian), might be trying
a fatal distraction during a vicious

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The police, however, tag ber
icHow attorney Rusty Sabich (Har-
tison Ford) as their lead suspect.
He's a square woth a brush-cut
whose integrity has only one
smudge -- a recent attar with the
victim, Although -he called it
quits, Rusty couldn't let go. It's
when the prosecutor finds himself
the prosecuted that his feving

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film review

site, Barbara (Bonne Bedelia:
stinds by bim,

Ford's acting is tat a distancing
technique that successiully keeps
us guessing about his innocence.
butt also defects any emotional
contact, The movie kicks into gear
with the gerival of Raul fulia as his
attorney, Sandy Stern. He's 3
dapper and lethal courtroom
weapon who must battle the

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enormous cHcumstantial evi-
dence. Amidst the sea of shady
dealings. the viewer 1 drawn more
to Julia’s unshakeable ¢ ontidence
than to Rusty’s bouled reactions.

Even though the film has a cou-
ple of problems with secondary
characters, such as the weaseljike
prosecuting lawyers who stand out
with cartoonish behavior,
Presumed Innocent generates
some of the most intelligent
suspense of any film this summer.
The Lacemaker **** (Criterion
Laser Disc) Rated R

This French film introduced
lsabelle Hluppert in a bitter and
deceptively simple love story.

Her character, a virginal beauti-
cian, falls for a privileged intellec-
tual student (Yves Boneyton). His
delight with her naive charm soon

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telligent suspense

turns to embarrassment when he
thinks she is inferior and limited.
Sel-absorbed, he’s too shallaw to
appreciate the puaty and depth of
her love.

The consequences ot his rejec-
tron are Kheartbreaking.

While the examination of a col-
lapsing relationship may sound too
depressing, it's a porgnant and
moving film worth seeing,

NORTH SHORE VIEWS
West Van Odeon: Die Hard 2,
Problem Child, Mo’ Better Blues,
Exorcist Hl
Park Royal: Presumed Innocent,
Duck Tales, Air America, Taking
Care of Business
Park & Tilford: Exorcist §t!, Prob-
lem Child, Navy Seals, Die Hard 2,
Young Guns I, Flatliners

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