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...much she cares for and depends on these people. Her vulnerability is too obvious and it prevents her from achieving any kind of emotional distance from her subjects. She pinpoints the problem of many of her photographs herself, in a comparison she draws between herself and Diane Arbus...
There are times when I put aside the camera. Forgo the image...Charlie Olchowski once told me Diane Arbus would do anything for a photograph--absolutely anything, go anywhere, to get what she wanted...Since by now I know I have limits and see what pictures I miss because of them. I can understand how that willingness to go forward, that final act to do it, get it, take it, is fundamental to her genius. It separates her from the rest...
This role is wonderfully defined by Alan Arbus, a resourceful comic actor Lest hopes be raised too high, however, let it quickly be added that Arbus is a supporting player in Law and Disorder, and that this scene is remarkable in a film that is otherwise filled with hollow horse-laughs about the hard lot of life in Manhattan. The two stars of the movie are Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine, who appear as a couple of working stiffs fighting back against the indignities of existence in a big city their children are molested, flashers approach their wives...
...Allan Arbus is overly dramatic and gives the weakest performance in the production as the writer-director. He's supposed to be a starry-eyed idealist but looks more like a high-strung neurotic, and he fails to convey the seriousness of his own dramatic message...
...gone into. Cinderella Liberty wants to be cute and sentimental and tries very hard to turn behavior like child desertion into the stuff of melancholy whimsy. All during this gruesome exercise there are some sharp supporting performances, notably by Allyn Ann McLerie as a snippy social worker and Allan Arbus and David Proval as a couple of Navymen. James Caan and Kirk Calloway, as the sailor and the kid, are very good too - so much better than the material, in fact, that you almost wonder why they bothered...