Word: boye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delicacy, and pathos are all the more solely misses when they are approached so tangentially, but never quite captured, as in this production. Instead, the company has acted rather like a small boy with a beautiful butterfly. They have toyed with the creature so much, that though many bits of beauty remain, most has been destroyed...
...young boy who is in the center of the film is caught in a home of pervading ugliness and static emotional vacuity. Trapped in the background at a dinner table which serves only as a battleground for his parents (a grotesque self-parody these since they are played by Cahbrol himself and his beautiful actress wife Stephan Audran), he tries to escape first by minor acts of destruction and finally by placing plugs in his ears. After he does so, Chabrol repeates scenes we have witnessed earlier, only this time without sound. As expressed by a slightly closer camera...
...called The Man "You have one hour to make up your minds. Either abandon this property or go to jail." Radically, the plan was revised--"We'll be back". The school was opened--"Pigs pigs everywhere and all the streets did stink". But not quite opened--"Hey you, Hey Boy, where is your ID card. Your can't go in there without a card. Dump everything you have out on the ground. Shut up and move." Finally, the Presidential address delivered (at Commencement)--"We will have law and order (Standing Ovation) We will not let the minority upset our institution...
...John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV, 32, son of John D. III and nephew of Republican Governors Nelson and Winthrop, himself recently elected Secretary of State of West Virginia on the Democratic ticket, and Sharon Percy Rockefeller, 24, daughter of Illinois' Republican Senator Charles Percy: their first child, a boy; in Charleston...
...well-modulated narrative is the character of Pierce. Steadfastly carrying a belief in the heroic pattern of life "like a shiny coin in his pocket," he represents a Hemingway-esque hero as seen through a Fitzgerald lens. His relationship with Ben is something far more complex than a simple boy-meets-boy story. As Pierce's wife observes to Ben just before the denouement: "What a curious pair you are, you two. I used to think the relationships between women were complicated, but they're nothing to what goes on between a couple of old Blues, are they...