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...families and their amorous and violent intertwining histories. The main storyline, if it can be called that, concerns the killing of Lion-heart Gamuzo, and the later death of his murderer. The narrator is obsessed with the particular mazurka that Gaudencio Beira, the blind accordion player at the local brothel, performs only upon these two occasions. Gaudencio's widowed sister, Adega, contributes her recollections and opinions on matters of life, death, magic and incidental gossip. "Some deaths brings sorrow but there are also those that bring great joy...." she notes at one point. "When I was a slip...
...setting, while not exactly Blade Runner territory, is a desolate space station -- a decidedly hostile environment. It includes a promenade with a space-age cash machine and a holographic brothel. Through it passes a contentious assortment of humans and aliens. Station Commander Benjamin Sisko, while as courageous and honorable as U.S.S. Enterprise captains James Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard, openly expresses his discontent with his hardship assignment...
Anthony Fraser (Michael Biehn) is the handsome young district attorney assigned to Reece's case. Ethically troubled when his boss instructs him to push for the death penalty on Reece, Fraser nevertheless bears up under pressure and in the end works the courtroom like a playboy in a French brothel...
Shadows and Fog is most obviously an exercise in style, a beautifully made tribute to the expressionistic cinema of 1920s Germany. It's all here: a homicidal maniac stalking the menacing night streets of a nameless, timeless city; a circus and a brothel populated by fringe figures who, naturally, are less hypocritical socially and sexually than the police, the church and the bourgeoisie; a score that features the music of Kurt Weill; lighting and a camera that pay homage to the whole Weimar school of cinematography...
Gregorio de Matos, a priest, judge, satirist, poet, scholar, theologian and the best-known lover and whoremonger in all of Bahia, recites Gongora to prostitutes in his favorite brothel. He writes scathing satires on the Governor's physical attributes and probable impotence. De Matos eventually emerges as the hero, for, despite his many peccadilloes, he has a keen sense of right and wrong...