Word: brilliante
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...made the mistake of taking it seriously; I thus construed it as a cheap shot against Nietzsche. After all, it's hardly his fault for being dead. In the panorama of intellectual history, there are quite a few dead people, many of whose observations were, and continue to be brilliant. We have come to a rather low form of argument indeed, when one side of this debate tries to discredit its opponent (on a T-shirt, no less) for being mortal. Nietzsche never claimed to be immortal--well, when he did, it was really the spirochetes talking. In any case...
...credit, Kaurismaki manages to fill the film's emotional void with a truly brilliant absurdist humor--as if Samuel Beckett had collaborated with him on the screenplay. As funny as this can be, the characters suffer from their constant deadpanning (as in Beckett). They lose depth, becoming suckers for the director's mocking...
...seems like a series of loosely connected episodes, and of photographic tableaux. In fact, the film's only logic is visual, tracing the progression of the seasons and the alternation of night and day in the changing contours of the urban landscape. Cinematographer Timo Salminen has done some brilliant work, coaxing charm aplenty from the city of light (and, in this case, shadow) without resorting to visual cliches or exuberant panoramas...
...owners, or renters, can take a ride west or north and view the foliage. Last weekend, the maples along the Mass. Pike were already turning a brilliant...
Virgil Thomson was a first-rate music critic, able author, brilliant dinner- party conversationalist and world-class gadfly, but he wasn't much of a composer -- which is, alas, primarily how he thought of himself. Turning his back on nearly every major compositional technique of the 20th century, with the notable exception of pastiche, Thomson wrote archly naive, perversely | wholesome music -- tonal, uncomplicated and almost completely unmemorable...