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...dialogues. Yet Bergman, who turns 87 this month, gives the story such vigor and rigor, so much emotional bile and spilled blood, that it would shame a much younger director. Here is no mild afterthought to which a critic nods indulgently. This is a testament of love and anguish from the man who used to be called the greatest living filmmaker. Well, dammit, he was. And, as Saraband proves, he still...
...sacred canon," Silberman says. Service to that canon became, in the words of Sociologist John Murray Cuddihy, "the ordeal of civility." Of all the problems faced by Jews since their earliest days in America--and Silberman covers most of them--the endless struggle over identity seems most fraught with anguish. Early arrivals in the new country found a society more tolerant than it was to become after the Civil War. Flagrant anti-Semitism of the sort familiar to 20th century Americans was born (or at least blurted forth) in Saratoga, N.Y., in 1877, when fashionable Hotel Manager Henry Hilton turned...
...these good women resolve their anguish The Official Story wisely does not state. There is no Solomonic wisdom applicable to this situation. In any event, the film's business is not to unwind a plot but to frame a parable about the individual's relationship to totalitarianism. And that is subtly written on the lovely face of Aleandro as she descends from serenity and self-possession to a final, harrowing acknowledgment that her privileged life was based on willed blindness, that her future is as an emotional desaparecido. Hers is a performance that one knows will not be forgotten, much...
...Diarmuid Martin, a Vatican official and family friend, summarized the shared sense of sorrow and shock. Noting that many of the mourners were journalists, including Natasha's father Victor, an editor for the Associated Press in Rome, Father Martin observed, "We've written or spoken about suffering, about anguish, about tragedy, about natural disasters. We've spoken about violence and terrorism, about all the good and evil in society. But when we heard the news, heard the name of someone we know, the child of a friend, we were shocked and stunned...
...Each land shall be full of you and each sea; and every one shall be incensed at your customs." So the Apocrypha prophesies, and so Marek Halter's enormous novel echoes with the unfurling of Jewish history from the sacking of Jerusalem to the anguish of the Warsaw ghetto...