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Dennis Altman

THE LIFE OF BRIAN (1979) – Review by Dennis Altman [Cinema Papers]

Blasphemy is by no means dead in Britain, as the recent condemnation of Gay News, for publishing a poem portraying Christ as homosexual, reveals. But The Life of Brian has nothing about it as shocking to the faithful as this, and is saved indeed from blasphemy by its sheer vulgarity.

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