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ATTITUDINIZING
White Mischief is about the British kinky set in Nairobi in 1940. Coming three years after Out of Africa, a lot of moviegoers, resistant to Streep’s artifactual method, prefer this one and for what it aims to be—an exposé of the bored bitch class as a highly entertaining bitch romp. You must, as a condition for its enjoyment, accept the remarkable cast as nothing more than emblematic poster: Charles “The Hair” Dance, Greta Scacchi, Joss Ackland, Sarah Miles, Geraldine Chaplin, John Hurt, Trevor Howard and Murray Head (almost unrecognizably meaty compared to his thinness in Sunday Bloody Sunday). Acting? Attitudinizing is the operative and no one does it better than the British, their subjects and outcasts. Great hairdos and hats. Miles has a very memorable moment in the morgue. Based on fact, adapted from a book by James Fox (not the actor), directed by Michael Radford.
Text COPYRIGHT © 2005 RALPH BENNER All Rights Reserved.
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