Movies
April, 1981
Roman Polanski's Tess (Columbia) is beautiful but not a movie I'd recommend to people who say they slept through Barry Lyndon. Languid, lovely films based on literary classics are the still water of cinema, made in a contemplative mood, and this serene adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles is hardly what audiences have learned to expect from Polanski. There is a touching dedication "to Sharon" (his wife, Sharon Tate, victim of the Manson gang) discreetly added to the o...
