USA,
1968, 95 min
Shown in 1968
CREDITS
- dir
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John Korty
- scr
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John Korty
- cam
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John Korty
- editor
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Paddy Monk
- cast
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John McLiam, Louise Ober, Mark Jenkins
- prod co
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Korty Films, Inc.
- source
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Korty Films, Inc.
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COMMENTS
John Korty in person.
OTHER
Riverrun is a very contemporary variation on one of the most eternal of triangles—but one little dealt with in film or fiction, perhaps because of its touchiness: the rivalry of father and lover for a beautiful (and pregnant) girl. The young couple have left Berkeley for the misty green countryside of the coastal region north of San Francisco—living on a sheep ranch and trying to get back to fundamental realities. Their style is the quiet, serious style of modern youth trying to cope with a corrupt and phony world. Into their delicately balanced life intrudes the girl's merchant-seaman father, bringing with him out-of-date ideas and prejudices, memories of an embittered marriage and overwhelming emotional demands. Riverrun is photographed in soft luminous color. Its portrait of the young couple's world is a gentle, personal one, far from the overwrought fictions of Hollywood's approach to contemporary youth. Yet the tensions it contains build to a startlingly powerful climax.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #202
At the 1978 SFIFF, Paul Mazursky received a tribute at the Palace of Fine Arts. Apparently, the facility’s janitorial staff had not been notified, and the padlocked doors of the Palace had to be cut so the filmmaker and his audience could be let in.
