Carnal Knowledge
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Movie Reviews of Carnal Knowledge
Movie Review: Depressing
Summary: 2 Stars
The story opens in the fifties, and cool Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and timid Sandy (Arthur Garfunkle) are college freshmen with one thing on their minds. Their deed-doing adventures soon begin but as we follow them over the next twenty years, we see they still haven't figured women out at all.
This movie was considered very risqué in 1971, and still retains some shock value from the coarse and passionless way the two men talk about and experience the opposite sex. Though Nicholson was in his thirties, he still pulls off being a giggling college freshman. As his character ages, he becomes the bitter and worldly-wise man he's played so often and so well. Garfunkle (then a wildly successful folk singer) was a good choice as the bumbling young man who needs his roommate's prodding to go all the way with his girl (a lovely, young Candice Bergen). Ann-Margret was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Jonathan's tarty, miserable lover.
I didn't like the movie much because of its unresolved episodic scenes and the callous approach to what women would call "romance." Although I can see its place in movie history as a barrier-breaking, in-your-face film about things people didn't really talk about back then, it still left me feeling sad and empty.
Movie Review: Ridiculous
Summary: 2 Stars
Carnal Knowledge had all the intelligence of sixth-grade boys giggling during a game of Spin the Bottle. I've met a lot of half-wits in life but they were geniuses compared to the pubescent mentality of the characters in this film. These were college students? Were there really people this goofy in college? Yes, in this and that way, certainly including me feeling my blind way through an overwhelming cosmos. But to call this film "intelligent" is like giving a nobel prize in physics to an adolescent boy upon smoking his first cigarette. Carnal Knowledge can be summarized with one word: ridiculous.Movie Review: Coming to the screens of film schools everywhere...
Summary: 2 Stars
What I found so impressive about this in the early 70's is a mystery--unless it's Ann-Margret's statuesque figure. Most of the dialog is better suited for writer Jules Feiffer's stylish cartoon characters. Even Jack Nicholson can't keep this tub afloat, although it's fun to see mannerisms and intonations which were used to perfection only 3 years later in the incomparable "Chinatown."Movie Review: lots of scenes cut out
Summary: 1 Stars
I was looking for the uncut version. It was a christmas gift and the person I gave it to was not satisfied, they wanted the uncut version.