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20 FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1993 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH THE ARTS I FILMS Hugo Davenport on a mistaken remake, the return of an Oscar-winner, Liv Ullmann's directorial and a cop drama set in a Jewish community A gem that vanished without trace Consolations The Vanishing (15, of religion Odeons Leicester Sq, High St Kensington, Swiss Cottage, UCI Whiteleys, 110 mins) Untamed Heart (15, MGMs Oxford St, Trocadero, Fulham Rd, 102 mins) UTCH director George rare Sluizer was privilege granted when a Hollywood decided to remake his thriller Spoorloos, released in Britain three years ago as The Vanishing. He was hired for the American, reason version to hope too, that so his mesmeric portrayal of the calculating madness hidden within the mind of a nondescript family man might come through intact. Fat chance. A brilliant idea, originally executed with a quiet authority that made its horror all the more insidious, has indeed vanished buried alive beneath the of the modern Hollywood psycho-chiller. The remake has a plot heavy contrivance; a villain exhibiting obvious signs of dementia; a resourceful, nay "feisty" heroine; a swampy, Grand Guignol climax taking its cue from Cape Fear; and worst a happy ending signalled by an apologetic joke.

What Sluizer's American retread shows is not so much the banality of evil as the curse of banality. Scriptwriter Todd Graff supplies the ironic explanation: "He felt that what is really frightening about the story is that you are somewhere that is totally normal and then this terrible thing happens. I actually agreed with him, but I also thought who wants to see a whole movie in a completely normal, banal setting?" Sluizer was right. It was this, very ordinariness its that made the story nightmarish pay-off seep from the realm of dismissable fantasy into the security of real life. Graff, however, elects to show the couple first on the ravaged slopes of Mount St Helens, so we know from the outset that they are on the road to disaster.

Welcome, then, to the banality of the bizarre. What happens is, after all, an experience frighteningly common in these days of large, mobile populations: the inexplicable disappearance of an individual. Here a couple, Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) and Diane (Sandra Bullock), run out of petrol in a long mountain tunnel; he heads off to find fuel, leaving her scared and alone in the car. Safely reunited, they stop at a service station and she makes him swear never to leave her again. Then she I OPERA AND BALLET COLISEUM 071 836 3161 CC 071 240 5258 CC (24hr) 071 240 7200 ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA Ton't 7.30 INQUEST OF LOVE.

Tomor 7.30 MACBETH. Playing the heavy: Jeff goes off to buy beers and does not return. Jeff begins an obsessive hunt, which wrecks a hied waitress, Rita (Nancy Travis), takes him in hand. The new relationship is threatened by Jeff's continuing secret preoccupation until Diane's abductor, Barney (Jeff Bridges), approaches Jeff three years on and offers to show him exactly what happened. Part of the trouble is that instead of building up a picture of the kidnapper by fragmentary flashbacks, the remake starts with a long sequence laying out Barney's meticulous preparations for snatching his random victim and SO kisses goodbye to any subtler forms of suspense.

Bridges's is freakish demeanour a leer, a limp, a trippy-hippy hairdo and an obscurely European mumble also mark him out as a nutter from the first. Priese mannerisms are COLISEUM inc CC 071 836 3161 THE KIROV BALLET 29 JUNE TO 31 JULY Royal Gala 29 June in presence of H.R.H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES Romeo The Sleeping Gala Programme. TELEGRAPH COMPETITION FILM A -Z WIN A TOSHIBA HOME CINEMA PACKAGE Every day this week until tomorrow, we shall be posing questions on a film theme, whose answers relate to a certain letter. Today's letter is 'K'.

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Bridges with Nancy Travis in patch on the cold, anonymous menace of the character as played by BernardPierre Donnadieu. Rather than concentrate on the taunting, cat-andmouse game played out between abductor and vicfor big showdown. If tim, the film pushes too hard did not see the original, you might just mistake this for a Hollywood thriller with flashes of welcome originality. But you would still be better off tracking down the first, subtitled version on video. The waitress-as-heroine gets another outing in Tony Bill's Untamed Heart, this time played wonderful Marisa Tomei, the surprise winner earlier this year of the Oscar for best supporting actress on the strength of her performance in My Cousin Vinnie.

Although the new movie is far from perfect, Ms Tomei proves that her prize was no fluke. After a mawkish black- ROYAL OPERA HOUSE 071 240 1911. Standby info 836 6903. CC 65 amphi seats avail on the day. THE ROYAL OPERA Ton't 7.30 La Boheme.

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"Stunning, utterly riveting GO!" Out LAST 2 WEEKS: A Groups APOLLO 828 6188 VICTORIA cc 24hr SS 071 cc 344 630 6262 9977 071. 379 9901 Groups 930 6123. Andrew Lloyd Webber's New production of STARLIGHT EXPRESS "A REBORN THEATRICAL DELIGHT" Daily Mail White knuckle runs 19.45 daily Tue Sat 15.00 Tickets from £9.00 £28.00. COMEDY 071 867 1045 cc 071 867 071 344 9977 (24hrs, no fees). THE INVISIBLE MAN "THE BEST FUN TO BE HAD IN THE WEST END" D.

Mail. Eves 7.30, Mats Wed Sat 3.00 SPECIAL FAMILY PRICES! CALL 867 1045 CRITERION 071 839 CC 071 344 4444 (no bkg fee) "SENSATIONAL" F. Times ELEGIES Prevs 17 June. Opens 28 June Sofie (PG, Curzon Mayfair, 140 mins) Close to Eden (15, MGM Shaftesbury Ave, Odeon High St Kensington, Screen on the Hill, 109 mins) CTRESS Liv Ullmann, A who as often a shone performer in slow, sensitive period pieces, makes her as a writerdirector with Sofie. Not altogether surprisingly, it is a slow, sensitive period piece.

Spanning two decades, the film begins in Copenhagen in 1886. It centres on a woman, from an affectionate, but stifling Jewish who is compelled to give up the gentile artist who has stirred her passions in favour of marriage to a weakcousin. Karen -Lise Mynster plays the eponymous Sofie with a great glow of inner conviction, while veteran actors Erland Josephson and Ghita Norby, as her mutually besotted parents, supply gentler effulgence. The film pays loving attention both to the minute details of everyday intimacy and to the Jewish milieu, with its intricate religious rituals and its family gatherings. Silences are often protracted as Ullmann seeks emotional resonance in the nuances of gesture and facial expression.

No obvious effort has been made to inject a contemporary relevance into the piece. Yet its reflections on the limitations placed upon the lives of children by even the most loving and well-intentioned of parents are far from antique echoes. The theme is played out through Sofie's emotional upheavals, as she experiences the force of a grand passion destined to frustration; finds a more limited happiness in motherhood; and finally, when her son grows up, sees him reject the bonds which have held her own life in check. Jewish culture specifically the customs and beliefs of the Hasidic Jews are treated in still more eulogistic fashion in Sidney Lumet's Close to Eden. In this case, however, the heroine an independent-minded female detective investigating a murder and jewel robbery within the enclosed community of New York's Hasidim finds herself unaccountably attracted by the restrictions placed on the lives of women.

The film is structured very like Witness, with the investigation providing narrative drive, as detective Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith) puts forward the unwelcome proposition that the crime VICTORIA PALACE Box Off CC (No bkg fee) 071 834 1317 CC (bkg fee) 071 344 7200 Groups 071 930 6123. BUDDY The Buddy Holly Story "BRILLIANT" Sun. BUDDY "WONDERFUL STUFF" Sun. Tel. BUDDY Mon-Thurs 8.00 Fri 5.30 8.30, Sat 5.00 8.30 ALL SEATS PRICE FRI 5.30 PERF.

SENSATIONAL YEAR OVER 1500 PERFORMANCES BOOKING THROUGH 1993 WHITEHALL 071 867 071 344 497 9977 BEST COMEDY PERF BEST ENTERTAINMENT 1993 OLIVIER AWARDS SIMON CADELL WILLIAM GAUNT RICHARD KANE TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT GILES HAVERGALS brilliant adaptation of GRAHAM GREENE'S funniest novel" Obs. Mon-Fri 8.00 Wed 3.00 Sat 5.00 8.15 WYNDHAMS 071 867 344 497 867 1111 JUDI MICHAEL DENCH PENNINGTON The acclaimed RSC Production of "PETER SHAFFER'S brilliant new play" S. Times THE GIFT OF THE GORGON "The final reception was thunderous and rightly so" Gdn. Directed by PETER HALL Mon-Sat 7.45 Mats Sat 3.00 CINEMAS CURZON MAYFAIR Curzon St. 071 465 8865.

SOFIE (PG) Progs at 2.00, 5.00 8.00. CURZON PHOENIX Phoenix St, off Cross Rd. 071 867 1044. MEDITERRANEO (15) Progs at 2.15 (not Sun), 4.15, 6.15 8.30. CURZON WEST END Shaftesbury Ave W1 071 439 4805.

THE STORY OF QIU JU (12) Progs at 2.00, 4.10, 6.20 8.40. may have been an inside job. Meanwhile the emotional force of the film rests in the hopeless mutual longing between Emily and deepthinking Ariel (Eric Thal), heir to the Hasidic rebbe, who prefaces almost every remark with a quotation from the cabbala. His sister, Leah (Mia Sara), has a similar litany: "When we were a desert There is an irritating tendency to suffuse every scene of Hasidic tradition with a reverent golden glow. Sometimes the film becomes virtually an exercise in "20 things you didn't Know about Hasidic Judaism' they have, for example, 613 different rules to keep, and the men wear those sideburnringlets because a forgotten tribe of desert idolaters are supposed to have shaved the sides of their heads.

And sometimes not least thanks to the music of Jerry 'The Vanishing', a Hollywood and-white opening, in which a small boy with a bad heart is regaled by a kindly nun at an orphanage with tales of his daring explorer father and the mythical baboon, king, film settles into a predictably plotted but often touching romance. Caroline (Tomei), the waitress, has had a run of bad luck with men; she consoles herself by larking around with her tougher friend, Cindy (Rosie Perez). When Caroline is threatened with rape one night, she is rescued by Adam (Christian Slater) hand the little boy of the opening, now grown into a young man so withdrawn that his colleagues regard him as hopelessly backward. He turns out to be a sort of angel and Caroline falls head over heels in love with him. Such beatitude can only be shortlived, but Slater at least gets to show that there is more to his talent than playing teenage misfits.

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Groups 930 6123. "Peter Hall's haunting and revelatory production" E.Std. Anna Carteret Michael Denison Hannah Gordon Dulcie Gray Nicky Henson David Yelland OSCAR WILDE'S AN IDEAL HUSBAND "A are advised to beat a path to the Globe" S.Times. Eves 7.45, Mats Thu 3.00, Sat 4.00. MUST END TOMORROW.

HAYMARKET THEATRE ROYAL 071 930 (24 hrs no bkg fee) 071 344 9977 LUST Circa 1661 A new comedy musical based on The Country Wife Previews from 5 July Opens 19 July HAYMARKET THEATRE ROYAL 071 930 8800 (inc cc no bkg fee) 071 344 4444 (with bkg fee) ROBERT LINDSAY D.Exp SHINING Indp as CYRANO DE BERGERAC SW Marvellously Passionate" D.Tel adapted by JOHN WELLS Directed by ELIJAH MOSHINSKY Eves 7.30, Wed Sat Mats 2.30. LAST 3 PERFS MUST END TOMORROW. remake with all the of a modern psycho-chiller OTHER NEW RELEASES SURPRISINGLY sharp edged for Disney picture, Thomas Carter's film is based on the true group of teenagers in pre-war Hamburg who expressed their opposition to Hitler by following the swing music deemed degenerate the Nazis. Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale and Frank Whaley play the rebellious trio whose contrasting destinies unfold the drama of moral choice: Kenneth Branagh makes an uncredited appearance as a Gestapo officer (see Diary opposite). It blends wild dance numbers with reflections on politics which have once more become topical.

The film might easily have turned out as Saturday Night but it is better than that an original, well-acted, thought provoking slant on history which should captivate any intelligent youngster. Army of Darkness The Medieval Dead (15, 89 mins) WATCHING this harmless horror-spoof from writerdirector Sam Raimi, it seems inconceivable that the first film in the series, The Evil Dead, should once have been on the DPP's of Campbell plays the chainsaw and shotgun-toting hero projected back in time to circa AD the wisecracks and effects are rather fun. By the time the dead mount assault on a castle, however, the stop motion technique is irresistibly reminiscent of the bygone age of Ray Harryhausen. ANDREW WEBBER'S AWARD WINNING MUSICAL THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Directed by HAROLD PRINCE NOW BOOKING TO MARCH 1994: Eves 7.45. Mats Wed Sat 3.00 Apply to Box Office daily for returns.

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There's also sturdy counterpoint from Jamey Sheridan, as a fellow cop who would like to share Emily's gas bill, and from John Pankow. None of them, unfortunately, can make a silk purse from this nonkosher sow's ear. Bock there are disconcertflashes of Fiddler on the Roof. ODEON HAYMARKET Bookings (071) 839 7697. 24hr information 0426 915353 (local call).

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