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...this movie is concerned, not a very sexy one. Writer-director Andrew Bergman presents her as a rather abstract object of desire. He wants us to know that his mind, at least, is not in the gutter--can't afford to waste time there, given the amount of busy work he has to attend. This largely derives from the complexities of novelist Carl Hiaasen's quite faithfully followed plot. It places Moore's character, a stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight to regain custody of her daughter from a creepy former spouse, which in turn involves...
...Motion Picture Academy in Hollywood. Though unsanctioned by the usual arbiters of artistic chic--film festivals and critics' groups--and something less than a breakout box-office hit of the Like Water for Chocolate variety, Il Postino became the first foreign-language film nominated for best picture since Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers 22 years ago. Troisi was cited for his performance, Radford for his direction. Both the screenplay and the score were also nominated. In a race where favorites like Tom Hanks and John Travolta stumbled, and where Babe proved that pigs could fly at Oscar time...
...where are the guardians of free speech when we need them? For the most part, they are off in the sunny glades of academe, defending professors against the slightest infringement of their presumed right to say anything, at any volume, to anyone. Last fall, for example, history professor Jay Bergman was reprimanded by his employer, Central Connecticut State University, for screaming at a student he found tearing down a flyer he had posted. Now the Anti-Defamation League and the National Association of Scholars are rallying to have the reprimand rescinded. Reprimand, mind you, not firing or suspension...
Female musicians with a cannily erotic appeal could always be found--in the movies. Think of Ingrid Bergman, who played the femme fatale pianist who broke up Leslie Howard's marriage in the 1939 movie Intermezzo, or Amy Irving, who went mano a mano on the ivories with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980's The Competition. Prominent women instrumentalists have been much rarer in real life. During the first half of the 20th century, the severely beautiful Erica Morini, who died last month at 91, was one of the few who could lay claim to first-rank status. And Morini bristled...
...title of the film makes more sense in the context of the passage to which it alludes. The quote, from the Ingmar Bergman film "Fanny and Alexander" begins, "The world is a den of thieves and night is falling," and concludes. "Therefore it is necessary, and not in the least shameful, to take pleasures in the little world, good food, gentle smiles, fruit trees in bloom and waltzes." As Camille struggles to choose between her puritanical morality and the fulfillment of her desires, we sense that she has these words in mind...