![]() We don't get a sense of three actors relating with one another, but of two skilled actors supporting a star whose charisma is apparently ageless.Įlizabeth Taylor remains glamorous no matter what she does to herself, and she's especially effective when she plays against the glamour by taking semi-sluttish roles. "X, Y & Zee" is a superior screenplay, but that doesn't help the movie very much because the focus of attention is always Elizabeth Taylor. It also had the husband eventually turning away from the girl and the wife becoming her protector and confidant - although not with the final twist we get this time. But, like "X, Y & Zee," it involved a human triangle and a young girl coming between the partners of an old marriage. Even in its uncut form, "Three Into Two" didn't work very well. Her only other screenplay was for the unfortunate Rod Steiger-Claire Bloom movie "Three into Two Won't Go," which recently turned up on television in a badly mutilated version. The screenplay for "X, Y & Zee" is by novelist Edna O'Brien. ![]() And toward the end of the movie she reveals some latent lesbian tendencies that provide Miss Taylor with a final victory. She's a quiet girl, shy and not self-assertive. The young girl doesn't realize this, of course, and gets caught in the middle of the game playing. Sometimes we're reminded of George and Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The couple has too much hatred invested in their marriage to break it up now. They're childless, and their marriage has settled down into a grim sadomasochistic battlefield. We sense he's had affairs before, and that they play an important part in this uneasy marriage. He doesn't make much of an effort to hide the affair from his wife, apparently because part of his kick is in flaunting a mistress.
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