Word: berto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...makers, who (like Haskell Wexler in the kinetic Medium Cool) either put his techniques to better dramatic use or (like Agnes Varda in the festival's ludicrous Lions Love) sink beneath the weight of aimless stylistic decoration. Le Go/ Savoir features Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto sitting around a TV studio engaging in a lot of Mickey Mouse debate about linguistics and mouthing doses of Godard's peculiar politics (the FBI had Bobby Kennedy shot) and aesthetics (Léaud shows striking workers two truly revolutionary films: Lola Monies and The Great Dictator...
ANTONIO IN LOVE, by Giuseppe Berto. The Italian novelist listens to young love's first brave banalities with a nice ear for irony...
ANTONIO IN LOVE, by Giuseppe Berto. This is a simple story of boy meets girl, Italian style, which has been given significance and deep resonance by the author's elaborate prose and by his sense of irony...
...Leaps of Love. This novel is scarcely more than a rewrite of Goethe's romantic masterpiece, The Sorrows of Young Werther. It is one of the simplest love stories in the world, but Berto's sense of irony transforms it. He unerringly follows the foolish impulse to the ridiculous act, the self-deception to the empty boast, the self-doubt to the confident lie-all the leaps that young love tries and fails to make...
...embarrassing in a conventional novel. It is precisely here that his rhythmic style-repetitive, insistent yet detached -triumphs. Instead of direct dialogue, he employs a wincingly accurate blend of external action with internal assessment, outer posture with private probing. By endlessly circling his characters with his ringed sentences, Berto arrives at the center of meaning that they themselves cannot reach...