Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...healthy that the subject of sex is now in the open. How sad that the sex act is no longer a private affair between two people...
...everyone involved, the experience, like every flight into the unknown of space, was suspenseful, fearful, gut-gripping. "But with this one," says Correspondent Neff, "there was a big difference-a deep, visceral understanding that here was history, and perhaps the act that may ultimately guarantee man's survival. That is a once-in-a-lifetime emotion. And that's what all of us felt...
...contemporary themes: with the dominance that those who are loved have over those who love them, with the illusive freedoms men surrender in a futile attempts to capture other freedoms they can never possess. But in tone, it is quite the opposite from the explicitness and boldness that often act as blinders on the visions of modern theatre. This play's tone is much more akin to Bergman's delicate Smiles of a Summer Night. On Turgenev's pages, the dots of suspension, and on the stage, is characters' embarrassed pauses should alone be to tell a story quite eloquent...
...infatuated by both and individual youth and youth itself. Natalia is more than just a victim of sur-pressed menopause; as Turgenev, who shares much with James and George Eliot, envisioned her, she is complex, distraught. Mrs. Hamlin, though, never searches below the sparking surface she creates. Her second act appearance on a reclining coach is too light; it does not help create a woman who--even if she had not met Beliaev--would have ended up in much the same desperation...
Chabrol as been far too often accused of being a misanthrope, accused of being concerned only with people who are evil and ugly. Chabrol shows that to ignore the evil and ugly. Chabrol shows that to ignore the evil and ugliness around us becomes an act of unwitting moral degeneracy, emphasizing this by the final analogy between all of Paris and the house of "La Muette...