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It is a real shame that "The Ballad of Tam Lin" is such a little seen effort as it is a hugely interesting and always compelling film. Director Roddy McDowall provides it with a very quirky and singular vision that is steeped in mysticism and weirdness. The placing of the story in the hippie era is a masterstroke that gives the story a fey and dreamy feel that speaks to the hallucinogenic world of the hippies and the otherworldliness of the fairies. McDowall fills the film with odd touches, strange angles and clever camera moves that add tremendously to the overall ambience, while cinematographer Billy Williams provides some beautiful, naturalistic widescreen landscape photography that adds its own dreamy dimension to the piece. Also adding to the mystical feel is the evocative folk score by Stanley Myers and the magical recitation of the actual Burns ballad by the legendary folk rock group Pentangle. The acting is solid throughout - Ava Gardner is beautiful, but with a steely, cynical, knowing underside; Stephanie Beacham is innocent and naive, while Ian McShane appears to know and be happy with his fate. Richard Wattis as Michaela's guardian and protector Elroy brings a dangerously waspish presence, while Michaela's coven harbours a number of well-kent faces including future director Bruce Robinson and starlets Joanna Lumley and Madeleine Smith.
Overall "The Ballad of Tam Lin" is a great film - a pastoral, psychedelic romance with a haunted undercurrent that brilliantly updates its fairy tale source material. It has a great folk horror feel running through it, while also delivering plenty of hippie retro appeal against a background of evocative folk rock. In many ways the film feels like a precursor for folk horror classic "The Wicker Man". A great film and on this showing a great pity that it was Roddy McDowall's only directorial effort. ( )