Word: banally
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...plot is banal enough, but the Abbey company plays its comedy with a fine Irish verve. Actress Harris blends nicely into the background of County Wicklow, where the picture was made. Wrote Manhattan's Irish Echo: "To native ears her carefully acquired 'brogue' jars at times, but who could have done better? . . . God bless...
...Cranes Are Flying (Russian). Director Mikhail Kalatozov goes wild with his camera, achieves glorious effects of cutting and lighting, and lifts a banal love story into whirling flight...
...Cranes Are Flying. (Russian). Director Mikhail Kalatozov goes wild with his camera, achieves glorious effects of cutting and lighting, and lifts a banal love story into whirling flight...
...story is as banal as it sounds, but Director Kalatozov has told it with smashing verve. He has obviously made the picture he wanted to make, relatively free of official interference, and the sense of freedom thrills in every frame. Kalatozov can seldom resist the brilliant angle and the trenchant frame, even when they interrupt the story, and his glorious effects of cutting and lighting are often spectacularly inappropriate. But somehow the vital extravagance of the film engages the spectator and whirls him along in its whirling mood. This mood is personified in Heroine Samoilova, an astonishingly imaginative young actress...
Less saccharine, but equally banal, The Prophet attempts to please the more pious Christmas shopper by recreating that familiar image of a Serene Sage and His Book. The tone, while respectably sacred, is unexciting enough to fit well in the most conservative of living rooms...