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Wednesday ,February 29,1984

 

PRESENTS

WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY

MARCH 7-11 |

8:00 PM

SUNDAY MATINEE 2:00 PM

DOUGLAS COLLEGE
PERFORMANCE
THEATRE

700 Royal Avenue,
New Westminster, B.C.

Adults — $5.00
Students and
Seniors — $4.00

Tickets and
Reservations: 520-5469

 

every Thursday in Room 2201
at 1:00

Featurmg Laurel & Hardy,

Charlie Chaplin, etc.
Sponsored by

Douglas College student society

- facing

 

Movie Doesn’t Cut It

Experience Preferred...
But Not Essential is the
story of a young girl's pro-
gression from adolescence

 

by ROBIN ROBERTSON

 

to adulthood.

The year is 1962, and
eighteen year-old Annie
(Elizabeth Edmonds) travels
from home to a resort hotel
on the Welsh coast to work
as a waitress before starting
college in the fall. There she
is greeted by an_ incredible
hotel staff that consists of
everything from a nude
sleepwalker to a young
woman who receives black
eyes from her ‘brutish’
boyfriend.

Although this is an age-
old theme, the move from
childhood to adult could be
handled in such a way as to
present a finely sensitive
movie. Such was not the
case in Experience Pre-
ferred...But Not Essential.

Despite being well-acted
and at times humorous and
sensitive, the movie was
poorly paced and left the
viewer feeling shocked hav-
ing to handle too many
subplots at once.

The jagged timing did not
allow the viewer to.empa-
thize with the character’s
lives. This was the result of
sub-plots that were not well
coordinated, leaving us
with bits and pieces of
people’s lives, but not fully
rounded characters. After a
while, | started to forget
who the main character was.

The time progression was
unrealistic. The story was
supposed to have lasted
over an.entire summer yet
seemed instead to rush
through a few days. At other
times, the movie seemed to
drag. With too many stories
squished into an 80 minute
film, the characters lives
didn’t have a chance to

develop, and the ending
seemed _ altogether _ too
quick.

The person who. carried
this movie off, however, was
Elizabeth Edmonds in her
first starring role as Annie.
Edmonds portrays her char-
acter as a mature and proud
young woman. who, _ not
being ‘‘street wise’’, is in-
troduced to an environment
totally alien from her past.

Annie contrasts her older
more experienced friends as
a more deeply sensitive
young woman. In her inde-
pendance, she stands out as
a young girl with ‘‘class’’
who is sought after by Mike,
(Ran Bain), the Scottish
chef. She is pushed into
many _ alternating
views on life, and_ finds
instead her own individual-

ity which sets her apart and
ahead of the others.

Also worth noting is Sue
Wallace, who plays the part
of Annie’s roommate Mavis.
Wallace handles well an
extremely poignant mono-
logue in which Mavis tells
Annie of her past engage-
ment to a childhood sweet-
heart.

Because of such interest-
ing character types and a
cast that supports well,

‘Experience Preferred’’ had
the potential of becoming
not just a pleasant and
quaintly humorous film, but,
instead, a sensitively mov-

       
      
     
  

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the event.

Maple Ridge
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|11715 -224 St., Maple Ridge.

|Doug Lewis, the student society
irep, will be looking for students
from the M.R. campus to workat

iContact Doug through the
reception desk atthe campus.

ing drama. Unfortunately,
the characters were never
allowed enough time to fully
develop and the ending
seemed abruptly and frus-
tratingly wrapped up all too
quickly when Annie leaves
to return home.

Experience Preferred...
But Not Essential is a mild,
pleasant and humorous film,
but because of a_ poorly
structured plot, it never had
the chance to develop to its
potential dramatic quality.

The show plays nightly
at 7:30 and 9:30 pm at the
Ridge Theatre, and is fol-
lowed next by Heart Like A
Wheel.

 

    

         
       
       

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