Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furniture maker who starts robbing banks, post offices, and train stations because he can't afford to pay his employees (devoted to wood, he's being beaten in the market by the manufacturers of plastics) into a film that is more complex than its unostentatious style would indicate. Beneath the country picnics, the tender-funny lovemaking, the man who robs a bank with a bandage on his nose and a single bullet in his gun, Goretta raises questions about the tenuous nature of our expectations, the impossibility of accomplishment in a money-oriented world, the reasons why we love...
Passion does exist, however. It lies nervously beneath the surface of Pierre's every glance and gesture, waiting to burst into violent action, though it rarely does. Goretta is more interested in the checks on animality, in the resonances that emanate from Pierre's life of thieving, than in the robberies themselves. Only when playing with his baby in a wild, almost frighteningly erotic state, do Pierre's instincts seem untamed. Only when he talks of wood do we realize the strength of their potential power...
...snowing heavily. Winter was having a last grand gesture before the vernal equinox arrived to formally announce spring. The snow glittered as it swirled around headlights and street lamps. It covered Cambridge clean and white beneath the black sky. The Square, too, swirled--with its overload of traffic, its wanderers, its happy groups, its solitary, carefully-dressed people whose hurry spoke of imminent rendezvous...
After this laconic beginning, Bishop needs only a prop-a copy of National Geographic-and a small cry of pain from the dentist's chair to create a child's epiphanic moment: "The waiting room was bright/ and too hot. It was sliding/ beneath a big black wave,/ another, and another...
...equally smitten. But when he finds that Marcie's fortune is derived from sweated labor in Hong Kong, he calls it a day, moves back to Boston, takes over the family enterprises and finds that Oliver III, from whom he had rebelled in Love Story, has been, beneath that stuffed shirt, a closet liberal all along. But have no fear. The revelation is not enough to make Ollie IV happy, and as this fairy story for depressives ends in December 1976, he is as miserable as ever, working hard, jogging along the Charles and still mourning over Jenny...