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AFTER 20 YEARS of making feature films, Bernardo Bertolucci should know better. The writer and director of such controversial, often ponderous works as Last Tango in Paris and 1900 attempts, with The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man, to return to the earlier sparse style which marked his powerful 1969 film The Spider's Strategem. Unfortunately, Bertolucci's recent film cannot match such earlier efforts, and its attempt to study paradox and ambiguity flounders in a self-conscious plot which even the wonderful lead actor and fine cinematography cannot salvage...
Directed and Written by Bernardo Bertolucci...
...State of Siege, Costa-Gavras turned politics into melodrama; he propelled the Good Leftists and the Bad Rightists into collision so headlong that the moviegoer had little time to ponder the ideology. In The Conformist and 1900, Bernardo Bertolucci turned politics into opera; anyone susceptible to visual grandeur could be swept away by the characters' emotional arias and the camera's delirious glissandos. Now each has made a film about political kidnaping in a turbulent country-Chile in Missing, Italy in Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man-and has approached the subject at a more measured pace. Without...
...Bernardo Bertolucci has built his latest film on the shifting sands of time, space and mood. Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man slides in and out of reality, jumps from chamber drama to outsize farce, switches seasons with the speed of a flipped calendar. The plot is simple and scary enough: the son of a Parmesan factory owner (Ugo Tognazzi) agonizes through a search for his son, kidnaped by terrorists of the left. Primo Spaggiari's industry and instinct have made him a millionaire. But as time drags on, and Primo realizes that meeting the ransom demand will mean closing...
...whom are now well assimilated, are growing increasingly hostile to the new arrivals. The term Marielito itself has become a fighting word in "Little Havana," the teeming, prosperous Cuban community in Miami; there are bumper stickers proclaiming NO ME DIGAS MARIELITO (Don't Call Me a Marielito). Says Bernardo Benes, a Cuban-émgré banker: "When I see Marielitos, I see numbers on them like the Jews in the concentration camps. There is a terrible lack of compassion for these people...