Ein Zauberer an meiner Seite (1971)

Ein Zauberer an meiner Seite: Directed by Henry Jaglom. With Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Phil Proctor. A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up.

“Henry Jaglom is a director Iu0026#39;ve heard about before, but had never seen one of his films. He makes a film every couple of years, they play in like three cities in America, and no one seems to like them. A Safe Place was his first film, adapted from his own play, which he wrote in 1964. Tuesday Weld plays an insufferable hippie chick who doesnu0026#39;t want to grow up. Phil Proctor is a square who wants desperately to bone her, so he puts up with her nonsense (he knows that sheu0026#39;s half crazy, but thatu0026#39;s why he wants to be there). Eventually, a much more exciting Jack Nicholson shows up and steals her away. Orson Welles plays a magician who occasionally enchants Weld with his magic. Gwen Welles (whom you might remember from Altmanu0026#39;s films California Split and Nashville), in her film debut, also appears and rambles on about her dreams of being sexually assaulted. The film is pretty, and that prettiness is very much augmented by Tuesday Weldu0026#39;s enchanting beauty. But, honestly, thereu0026#39;s not much going on here. Itu0026#39;s very repetitive (there are some nice, old songs on the soundtrack, but each of them plays all the way through like three times), and, well, boring.”