Review of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) by Bill Weber for Slant Magazine — 23 Apr 2016
A prisoner-of-war drama as fever dream, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence fascinates mostly for the hit-and-miss alchemy of its discordant elements: in performance, pop-star charisma versus British actorliness; in narrative style, genre expectations coming up against modernist psychosexual undercurrents.
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This review of Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) was written by Bill Weber and published by Slant Magazine on 23 Apr 2016.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence has generally received positive reviews.
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