A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN
Directed by Joseph Strick
Screenplay by Judith Rascoe
Sober. Earnest. Respectful. And, alas, excruciating. There is really little more to be said about Joseph Strick's adaptation of the James Joyce masterpiece. The novel may be this century's greatest restatement of that endlessly fascinating story of a youth in revolt against family, society, culture, religion—everything that formed him. But of course it is not the familiar tale Joyce told, but the manner in which he told it, that compels one's attention and awe. And there is simply no way to construct a film that can...
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