It’s not so much the head — who does the body belong to?
"Britannia Hospital," directed by one of Britain’s most controversial film.makers. Lindsay Anderson, starts at the Regent tomorrow. The film, which recently opened in the U.K. has, amidst a new wave of patriotism born of the Falklands crisis, provoked both acclaim and anger from commentators of the British media. “Britannia Hospital,” not unlike the director’s previous films. "If" and "0 Lucky Man,” leaves few' areas of the establishment unscathed.
Unions, medical science and the Royal Family are high on the satirical hit list. During the troubles in the Falklands, controversy over “Britannia Hospital" came to a head with many critics of the opinion that the film would be an "untimely" entry for Britain in this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The festival organisers, however, screened it regardless although a bizzare poster for the film was withdrawn from circulation. With his latest barb at society, Anderson scratches
strikes, racial tensions, dedication to royalty in a democratic state and a panoply of ambiguous attitudes.
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