1970 · drama · bengali
The Adversary
Directed by Larry Klein1h 15m1970
Jimmy West abandons his own boxing career to manage Johnny Carlos, a promising fighter who hates boxing. Jimmy fails at his new profession, and as a result of his disappointment with a woman, he turns to homosexual love.
Our read: The Adversary (1970) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · bengali entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / bengali, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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