![]() His mind was fertile, restless, questing and, it seems, surprisingly romantic. Through the uninhibited, unself-conscious love of his family, and the patience of his doctors, Christy learned how to be understood when he talked and to express himself first as a painter and then as a writer. People who had no idea they were being cruel referred to him within his hearing as an ''idiot'' and a ''half-wit.'' With his lips pulled over to one side, his eyes wobbling upward in their sockets, he spoke in a series of guttural syllables that would be translated by his mother.īecause he had the use of only his left foot, he was able to get around with difficulty, sometimes in a homemade wooden pramlike vehicle, pulled by his pals, and later in a wheelchair. ![]() ![]() He was unable to communicate through recognizable speech. The film opens today at Lincoln Plaza 1, Broadway at 63d Street.īorn in 1932 with cerebral palsy, the ninth of the 22 children his parents would eventually have (13 survived), Christy Brown grew up as an archetypal member of Dublin's working class - painfully poor, often deprived of essentials, yet also miraculously resilient.Ĭhristy's body was both twisted and paralyzed. Following are excerpts from Vincent Canby's review, which appeared in The New York Times on Sept. ![]() ''My Left Foot'' was shown as part of the recent New York Film Festival. ![]()
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