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6M The Salt Lake Tribune Friday, January 6, 1984 A Testament for humanity Riveting performances Pinters Betrayal comes to screen in fine fashion STATE MONOPOLY TOURNAMENT Sponsored by Salt Lake Boys and Girls Clubs, Inc. WHERE: Hilton Hotel WHEN: March 2nd 5-9 p.m. HOW: Register before Jan. 17 Salt Lake Boys Girls Club 968- Sugarmont Dr. COST: $20.00 Donation 1st PRIZE: TRIP TO NAT'L.

TOURNEY For more info: CALL TOM 484-0841 ws sisyr I oiYmeuifTflRSHipr? WOO SO. WASATCH BLVD. 272-014 This is a family you get to know in just the first minutes of the film. The closeness which you feel towards these people makes the ensuing tragedy that much more affecting. When the television suddenly goes blank and sirens blare, a nightmare begins.

But director Lynne Littman (an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker making her feature debut) takes an understated approach here, keeping the focus on this family and their neighbors. She wisely avoids special effects, and handles more macabre aspects with taste. The story remains personal, with the director splicing in snippets of home movies from happier days. As the characters try to make communication with surrounding communities, it becomes increasingly clear that the devastation of a direct blast came very close to their own homes. Husbands and wives who commute into San Francisco fail to return; people start to wonder about radiation.

Soon the fears become reality. While this film powerfully portrays the horrible effects of nuclear war on an innocent group of people, it is also about human qualities that make life worth living, qualities that sometimes are taken for granted. Obviously Testament is not an evening of light entertainment. As members of this small community fall to the effects of radiation and as members of this family start to look hollow-eyed, it is difficult to be unmoved. But what lingers after seeing Testament is a warm feeling, one which comes from watching a group of people continue to give of themselves, to show compassion and love, even in the face of unimaginable adversity.

your admiration long before this drama has run its course. Jane Alexanders wide-ranging performance as Carol W'etherly is the heart and soul of this film. Carol is a wife and mother who wakes up to Jane Fondas Work Out record and who seems a bit at odds with her energetic husband Tom, played by William Devane. Her character develops into a picture of strong selflessness. As the film begins, life for Carol is a constant rush of getting kids off to school, of taking out the garbage, of getting breakfast for husband and children.

Carol doesnt have much time for herself, and like anyone in that situation, it bothers her. When her husband bprks for his breakfast one moment, and the next says he doesn't have time to eat, she dumps a bowl of dry cereal over his head. Tom, played with abundant good humor by Devane, responds with a comment about the increasing seriousness of his dandruff problem. Then there are the children Brad, Mary Liz and Scottie respectively played by Ross Harris, Roxana Zal and Lukas Haas. It would be hard to find more natural performances than these.

Brad is the quiet young man who is the apple of his fathers eye. It is a precious relationship as father prods son to accompany him on a morning bicycle ride, and son hopes he wont let father down by not being able to pump his way to the top of a challenging hill. Mary Liz is at the age when shes starting to become a woman, something which is both exciting and frightening. Young Scottie is the boy who is incredibly aware of what's going on, and in his own innocent ways tries to make things better. bombshell: She tells Jerry that she is leaving her husband, and that in the course of their fight the night before, she told Robert everything.

Everything? Everything about us? Jerry is incredulous. Robert, a publisher, Jerry, a literary agent, meet that evening to discuss the situation. Jerry is neurotic, Robert cool and urbane. "Ive known about it for years, says Robert. From this point, Pinters unusual structure comes into effect.

"Betrayal is played in reverse chronological order. It ends about nine years before it begins. He takes us back to the day when Jerry and Emma decided to give up their flat where they had carried on their trysts for five years. We go back to the time Jerry, rosy with drink, first professed his love for Emma. Besides putting the audience in the role of voyeur, Betrayal also makes you act like a detective.

There are moments when it is hard to believe a character, hard to determine motives. Did Robert really know his wife was having an affair? Had he really been carrying on an affair of his own all these years? Some questions are answered, some are not. Betrayal holds your attention with Pinters fine writing, and with performances that breathe life into his words. This is Kingsley's second film role, and it is a complete departure from his Gandhi. He gives Robert an ice-like quality beneath his smooth and polite exterior.

Irons performance has an unnerving edge as his character plays a game of deception and romance. Patrica Hodge is the sensual woman who follows love wherever it takes her. The film will have a limited run at the Blue Mouse, 260 E. 100 South. By Terry Orme Tribune Staff Writer Here is a story of contradictions, of love and deceit, of friendship and adultery.

It is sometimes Film review funny, sometimes sad and cruel. But always straightforward, even blunt. There is another thing that is constant in Betrayal the performances. Ben Kingsley and Jeremy Irons are riveting as Robert and Jerry, best friends and business associates. Patricia Hodge is radiant as Emma, Roberts wife and the object of both mens desires.

The film adaptation of Harold Pinters play is making a belated appearance in Salt Lake City. Pinters drama is afascinating character study and director David Jones casts the audience in the role of voyeur peering into this trios complex and intimate interactions. That we are peeping Toms is made evident in the first scene, as the camera pulls in on a fashionable London townhouse. Theres a party breaking up. People are putting on coats, saying their goodbyes.

Then the camera pulls in even closer, looking through a window. Host and hostess, Kingsley and Hodge, are in the kitchen, she cleaning up, he having another brandy. The conversation gets more and more animated, coming to a sudden halt when she delivers a sharp slap across his face which he unhesitatingly returns in kind. Next we see Emma as she meets Jerry in a corner pub, he obviously ill at ease in the meeting. Through a cat-and-mouse conversation, we learn that these two have been lovers, but the affair is long over.

However Emma drops a 1984 National Figure Skating Championships Salt Lake City, Utah vsryfsai-eieO-i Rmrouiy square1 THEATRE 6:10,8:00,9.50 "DEADLY FORCE DC CAB 5:40, By Terry Orme Tribune Staff Writer When The Day After aired on network television two months ago, it turned into more than a made-for-TV movie. It became an event. That sort of hoopla would not be appropriate for another film which opens theatrically in Salt Lake City Film review today, although it is about the same subject a nuclear holocaust. Testament is not the sort of film to spur debate on issues of global disarmament, or to start arguments over the its own authenticity. It is a personal, tender portrait which rings true every step of the way, affecting you on a very intimate level.

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