The Boy with Green Hair broadly meditates on our numerous, diverse human coping measures - be it the shunning of responsibility for our actions, the fantasizing of dramatic fictions in order to give ourselves some semblance of cause and meaning, the victimization of abnormality - without ever honestly playing as something more wisely envisioned than it might have been by the most banal of anti-conflict hippies. I'll take La Strada or Someone Else's Happiness or Antoine et Colette any day.

Fanciful message drama.

This is a big film. Different, but excellent. I need to go behind other works of Losey, as The Servant.

A well-intentioned but heavy-handed indictment of prejudice in all its forms. Dated but well-acted fantasy; today, the kid would just dress all in black and join an alternative rock group.