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...such premonitory notes, and one realizes what a big submerged effect Kline must have had on some of the better artists now alive: Richard Serra, for instance, whose dark walls of steel and thickly scrubbed-on black-crayon drawings evoke the same urban-industrial landscape that inspired Kline, or Brice Marden, or Cy Twombly, who lent this show a bunch of Kline's quickly brushed, frail sketches done on now crumbling pages of Manhattan telephone directories. These studies, not incidentally, dispose of the myth that Kline was a wholly spontaneous painter who staked everything on the one-shot gesture...
...newish art. In the palmy days of the market boom, before the great flopperoola of 1990, these used to be attended with bated breath as a spectacle of utterly crazed consumption. Watch the chap from the Mountain Turtle Gallery in Japan bid half a million dollars for a Brice Marden drawing! Don't miss the sight of S.I. Newhouse and a Scandinavian squillionaire driving a Jasper Johns to an unimaginable $17 million! See the De Kooning go for $20.7 million, and listen to the whole room applaud the bid as though they had just heard Pavarotti sing Vesti la Giubba...
...Accompanist" is not a typical World War II flick. Though what action there is takes place in occupied France and war-torn London, reference to international conflicts serve only to illuminate the nature of individual characters. Focusing on Irene Brice (Elena Safonova), a diva on the brink of universal success, her husband Charles (Richard Bohringer), and her impoverished accompanist, Sophie Vasseur (Romane Bohringer), the movie--through lighting, facial close-ups, music, and symbols--studies personalities, not history...
...movie begins with a shot of the as-yet- unidentified Sophie ascending a staircase that appears much too wide for her small frame. She rises on stage. As she mounts the stairs, the orchestra accompanying Mme. Brice becomes increasingly audible, and when Sophie finally stands watching soprano and orchestra from the balcony, the audience sees the singer's face--closeup against black background--through her eyes. After the concert, Sophie proceeds backstage to introduce herself to Mme. Brice and request an audition, and is swept into the tumult of the soprano's life and her post-performance party...
...person whose feelings the viewers can perhaps understand, is Charles Brice, Irene's husband, whom Richard Bohringer play as only truly nuanced characters. As the movie progresses, it becomes increasingly apparent that he is utterly devoted to his rather unappreciative wife; at one point he risks himself to save her from enemy fire, and another he affection is excessive, though. Because of it, he is labelled a "collaborator," having arranged concerts for his wife in Vichy, and through it he is ultimately destroyed...