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With I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, we have 3mm mOVie on life in Only’one staff umber is .

- mental institutions, but really evil, and Deborah's this time we are spared the psychologist is revealed relentlesle didactic as a woman of considerable . Stance usually Ei—Part 0f depth and canpassion, yet \ SUCh films- R356 Garden, who knows just what her diIBCted by P51351117 Page: patients really need. Noth- starring Kathleen ing is portrayed as

as Deborah Blake: ' a SChiZO' entirely bad or entirely Phrenj-C teenager r cuts SOIIB good here, for the main

new 9101de and it does have focus is on Deborah's psyche. a nwberof fine 'Ihrough dream sequences

Kathleen QUj-nlan is super ‘ and various background as 13813013311 Blake in R388 effects, we are given a Garden- Her acting is View of the interior of , perfectly suited to this Deborah's mind, and it is role -- she is sensitive this facet of the film that enough to pickup every makes it most memorable. 'Ihe subtle facet of the role and surrealistic dream . it all into an sequences, which deVelop a impressive and believable sort of sub-plot which whole.— other roles are parallels the developrent played well here too, and . Of the main Storyline, Occur the various inﬂates are with just enough frequency portrayed as real people, to leave us with an emotion- not as 'stock characters or ‘ al impreSSicn 0f the workings disgusting caricatures. of Deborah's mind, rather

The movie's prime beauty ‘than a emprelmsive under- lies in its innocence. Standing Of a clinical case Deborah's nadness is pre— of schizophrenia. We see sented sympathetically, and . what makes her act as she' life in the asylum is seen does, but we can only as a mixture of good and unierstand her through the bad, even though the mix— surrealist impressions

"tureofthecmismore than a little lopsided,

flashed at us now and, then; logic would not work in a

- case like this, nor would graphic depictions of the main character's fantasies. 'Ihe images themselves‘are striking; Deborah's dream world is inhabited by strange, vaguely archetypal desert people, all males, wl'm she refers to as' gods. In the various fantastic scenes involving them, we enter a whole new worl -— a terrifying world, yet beautiful; '

As a psychological profile of a troubled mind under- going a process of change,

'Rose Garde_n_isagoodmovie.

‘ It dos not push any special

brand of social message in our faces, nor does it make any sweeping value judgments Deborah changes on he own initiative, despite the fact that she was conmitted in— voluntarily. In this im- portant respect it far surpasses One Flew Over the r Cuckoo's Nest, and it shows how gripping such a film can be when it/chooses to avoid a documentary stance. Not a perfect movie (I wish it had focussed more exclusively on Deborah), but worth spending $3.00 on, just for its insight and its fresh approach.

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