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Overweight `Kangaroo' Limps

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870515
Author:Desson Howe

"KANGAROO," Tim Burstall's adaptation of the D.H. Lawrence novel, is like much of the writer's work: sincere, passionate and somewhat overwrought.

Ostensibly dealing with a fictional fascist underground group in Australia, the Australian-made film, like the novel, dips frequently into Lawrence's recurrent theme of gender politics - as experienced with his partner and wife-to-be, Frieda. The real-life Lawrences were permanently on the literary lam from intellectual oppression and other perceived evils of European society. The couple had lived in England, Italy, Germany, Austria and Ceylon ...

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