Title: OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 29
Product review: **** 1963. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger and based on Henry Morton Robinson'sThe Cardinal. Six Academy awards nominations and two Golden Globes (Best Picture and John Huston as Best Supporting actor). Stephen Fermoyle, on the verge of becoming cardinal remembers the high points of his life, between WWI and WWII. I watched this film four or five years ago when the DVD was released and wasn't so impressed at that time. But now, after having seen a lot of Otto Preminger movies during the past weeks, I must say that I had a tremendous pleasure watching THE CARDINAL last night. The movie handles, among others, a theme, Fate, one can find in some of the precedent Preminger films likeExodusorBonjour Tristesse. It's interesting to observe how those who dare to stand in the way of the Premingerian hero, like Carol Lynley and Romy Schneider in THE CARDINAL or Deborah Kerr inBonjour Tristesse, must disappear in order to let him fulfill his destiny. Highly recommended.
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