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`Kangaroo':Politics& Prattle;D.H. Lawrence's Tale Falls Flat on the Screen

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870515
Author:Richard Harrington

Australiaas the mild, mild West; the violent confluence of socialism and fascism; the search for identity-these are just some of the strands that run elusively through "Kangaroo," an Australian adaptation of a semiautobiographical novel spun out of D.H. Lawrence's brief stay in that country in the early 1920s.

"Kangaroo" opens in the middle of World War I. Writer Richard Somers (Colin Friels) and his German-born wife Harriet (Judy Davis) are relaxing in their English coastal house when the police make a late-night call. Somewhat clumsily, director Tim Burstall establishes that the dour ...

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