Review of Meetings with Remarkable Men

I first saw the preview of the film in Santa Fe, 1979, having flown from London to so do, and to meet Mme de Hartman. I re-watched the film in November 2016; Mme de Hartmann was a remarkable woman, and this film is remarkable only for a)its dullness; the script is risible and ponderously 'worthy'; the acting is wooden,sets are stilted , and some of the backdrops look like wallpaper; Terence Stamp lisps; Athol Fugard sports an incongruous Boer accent.(The Movements section in the finale gives a taste of what might have been). and, b)the helpless and hopeless directing of Peter Brooks- contrasted to his other efforts-like the Mahabarata- suggest him to have been following and demonstrating one of the Gurdjieff Work Maxims' Man is Asleep'.