Style
In a 1978 interview with the Village Voice, Mulligan told reporters, "I don't know anything about 'the Mulligan style.' If you can find it, well, that's your job." However, Chicago critic Jonathan Rosenbaum once hailed Mulligan as "one of the only American directors left with a fully achieved style that is commonly (if misleadingly) termed classical... he is a master of carving out dramatic space with liquid camera movements and precise angles, a mastery that’s matched by a special sensitivity in handling adolescents."
Critic and filmmaker Francois Truffaut also championed the director's work. Truffaut was, in particular, a fan of Fear Strikes Out and was impressed that it was only Mulligan's first feature, writing, "It is rare to see a first film so free of faults and bombast." Summing up Mulligan's talents as a whole, Truffaut concluded, "If there were French directors as lucid as Mulligan, as capable of telling something more than anecdotes, the image of our country on the screen would be a bit less oversimplified."
Another admirer of Mulligan's work was Stanley Kubrick, who featured a clip from Summer of '42 in The Shining (1980).
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