Word: bittersweetness
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...product and, like Blow-Up, reminds us how much can be created from a skeletal dramatic narrative. Its surf, cycle, and psychedelic setting is seldom exploited as such, and even the semi-mystery which motivates the plot is largely abandoned in favor of extended description of a bittersweet life-style gone slightly out of hand. The Sweet Ride tries to beat the trappings of its own genre by being a little better. It is, and its inevitable disappearance on Wednesday should not go entirely unnoticed, nor should we necessarily ignore the Orpheum's next seven-day double-bill. Note that...
...EYES OF THE BEACON STREET UNION (MGM). Among today's sound-saturated rock groups, The Beacon Street Union is refreshingly rare: it recognizes the existence of twin stereo speakers and utilizes them to separate its music into two compatible components. In the bittersweet My Love Is, soft cymbal brushings flick back and forth between the speakers to tickle the listener's ears. Beautiful Delilah starts with vocals out of the left speaker, then switches to the right, while rhythm and piano ricochet right and left; Sportin' Life, featuring a slow, dusky guitar, is a bluesy sound that...
That story, typical of the bittersweet confections so beloved by the Vietnamese, was being told all over Saigon last week. It dramatizes the feeling of fatalism that has been growing among many city dwellers since Tet-and thus represents a threat to the Vietnamese government that is second only to North Viet Nam's General Giap. The South Vietnamese, urban and rural alike, now find themselves caught in a violent new period of doubt-about whether the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky can endure, whether the U.S. is able to protect...
Sweet November is a little love sto ry that should be fey, funny, touching and bittersweet. Instead it is foolish, lugubrious, sloppy and saccharine. Flashing her little half-smiles in all directions, Sandy is supposed to be a delicious young thing who picks up men and takes them home to share her bed for a month at a time in order to alleviate their hang-ups, or whatever. Anthony Newley is supposed to be an upright box manufacturer who becomes Mr. November...
...provide the viewer with a shock of delight. There are sequences in his films that no other director would have dared to try, or could have brought off half so well: Alphaville's portrayal of the future as nightmare, achieved through location-shooting in present-day Paris; the bittersweet evocations of prewar Hollywood musicals in A Woman Is a Woman; the female mood of sensual boredom in The Married Woman...