Word: balthazar
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Transforming Lawrence Durrell's massively complex Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Cled) into a single coherent film is an impossible task. Obviously. Four full-length films could hardly unravel the interlocking time structure and convoluted personal relationships in the four separate but interrelated novels. Thus 20th Century-Fox might have been well-advised to follow the traditional Hollywood practice of isolating a single incident from one of the novels and blowing it up into a complete story for the screen. But fearlessly, the studio resolved to distill the essence of the entire Quartet -carefully constructed around Freud...
...abound in Pickpocket. Michel is consistently found between two people. In more than one case these are police detectives. More interesting, however, are the patterns of light which Bresson manages to achieve. Bresson is fanatical in his use of light. Capable of creating films entirely in whites (Au Hasard Balthazar) or in blacks (Diary of a Country Priest, Mouchette), in Pickpocket Bresson uses both in conjunction to demonstrate the difference between Michel's acts and their consequences...
...Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B. Donleavy...
...Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, Donleavy...
...BEASTLY BEATITUDES OF BALTHAZAR B, by J. P. Donleavy. A rich, dreamy young man wanders rudderless through a series of touchingly humorous misadventures. The author's best novel since The Ginger...