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The worst thing you can say about Marcel Ophuls is that whatever his politics, artistically he is a bourgeois humanist--mawkish, inconclusive, unclear, visually universalizing the particular. At the same time, his films show the power of that bourgeois humanism to move into an extra-political realm in which each...
PERHAPS MOST of the bewilderment which has greeted the film comes from Pauline Kael's typically confused notion that it depicts "women as the Other." But the film is interested not in these women's emotion, but the intelligence and intuitions which direct these emotions. The case can be made...
As usual, Bergman includes references to his own previous works--e.g., Maria and her husband plan to visit the Egermans, the eminently bourgeois family of Passion of Anna. Also to be expected are the wonderful Sven Nykvist photography, the clever color design (red for lust and guilt, white for innocence...
Ever since the French Revolution, the specter of a militantly left-wing government has periodically caused wealthy Frenchmen to dispatch their gold and cash to safe harbors abroad. This year an unknown number of businesses and petits bourgeois have been illegally transferring their liquid assets to Switzerland, Liechtenstein and other...
ACKERMANN SHARES WALDENBURG'S fascination with plant forms in concrete, but his series of etchings is more openly ideological: his backgrounds are the ruins of bourgeois society, with greenery just creeping from under stone slabs and out of dark, heavily hatched corners. Several titles are indicative: "Late Bourgeois Heroic," "Turning...