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...learn through a misty-eyed flashback that Blaine had fallen in love in Paris with a beautiful Norwegian girl (Ingrid Bergman) just before the German occupation, and was jilted on the day they planned to escape together. She turns up in Casablanca with famed underground leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), who is looking for two letters of transit so they can escape to America and he can continue "his work." Blaine has gotten hold of the letters from underground agent Ugarte (Peter Lorre) but vindictively refuses to give them up. The situation is complicated by the intervention of a corrupt...
From a detached viewpoint it's clear that "Casablanca" often wallows in second-rate humor and cheap sentimentality of the "Our Song" variety ("Play it again, Sam"). But, happily, it's easy to get in the mood for that sort of thing, and both Ingrid Bergman's charm and beauty, and Bogart's biting cynicism raise the film above the level of the ordinary gooey melodrama...
...reading period hors d'ocuvre the Brattle gives us Ingmar Bergman...
...Donner most emphatically thinks his lovers are normal, magnificently normal. Sex breaks open the ground of their lives and in it plants the seed of love. The final scenes are subtly realized and beautifully touching, but in one of them Director Donner, a 31-year-old protege of Ingmar Bergman, unfortunately promulgates one of those long long thoughts of youth that may mildly embarrass him when he gets older. Marriage, his heroine announces earnestly, is merely a "lesson in resignation"; the only true love is free love. Oh, well. In a movie like this, what's one anticlimax...
...best, Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentina's foremost film maker, studies his homeland with an unblinking poet's eye that invites comparison to Antonioni and Bergman. He deftly juggles modish effects, melding sun and skin into the languid what-next boredom of a summer afternoon or exposing the backbone of a scene with the blinding suddenness of a flashbulb popping in the dark...