Word: bourgeoises
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It was not a matter of getting into primitive fancy dress: all the painters involved were 20th century city dwellers, they had read Freud and Jung, some of them (notably Pollock) had been in analysis, and they were well aware that the "savage mind" cannot be mimicked by an act...
Altman certainly is not the first director to make films that mock the fraudulent elements of his culture. One thinks immediately, for example, of Luis Bunuel, whose films consistently expose the sham and hypocrisy of latin bourgeois culture. Bunuel's attitude towards his subjects is different from Altman's, however...
Bunuel seems to take a perverse delight in pointing up bourgeois foibles; with a hint of a sneer, he rips away the veils of middle-class civilization and urbanity. His knocking down of social myths proceeds largely along the class lines so clearly defined in modern European consciousness. One gets...
After struggling for a while in full pack, I got a cab--all right, it's a bourgeois thing to do, especially when you are trying to be a road person, but I was tried, and the cabbie told me it wouldn't cost more than a couple of dollars...
For all that, however, one cannot help comparing the jumpy life of this film to the becalmed chill of that other recent assault on the sterility of bourgeois life, Woody Allen's Interiors. The contrast is all in favor of Altman. The people in A Wedding are capable of...