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From: Quadrant
Date: 20040401
Author:Ryan, Peter

SO MANY YEARS AGO that I shrink from precise recollection, I saw a black-and-white film called The Seven Deadly Sins. The dialogue was French, with terse subtitles in English; there was no plot in the ordinary sense, but the "theme" was to illustrate each mortal sin by a robust example drawn from everyday life. ("Mortal", in this context, means "endangering the life of the soul".)

The "tone" of the film was worldly--a sort of tolerant cynicism which suggested Guy de Maupassant himself. Please remember, and make suitable excuse, that at least thirty years have passed, so I ...

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