Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruch's sorrow his second violin concerto won only initial acclaim that soon faded. While the world applauded the G Minor, the neglected D Minor remained Bruch's favorite. Now Yehudi Menuhin has recorded the pair in a performance of such luscious tone and melodic charm that even Bruch's duckling is at last a swan...
...McCarthy buttons and opened our hearts to the prospects of peace if we had known the fruits of all our efforts would be Godspell. A Jesus movement composed of empty rhetoric of sharing and contrived ritual of love has spawned an equally uninspired film. Godspell is devoid of charm, wit, taste, humor and even a semblance of intelligence. If the film has any interest it's not what is on screen, but in the emotional turmoil that must have antedated its making. What disenchantment and anger has forced the American apocalypse-wish into such high gear...
...sociology thesis on "Criminal Women." Camille has nothing going for her at all -- ingnorant, vulgar, even hook-nosed--and yet Stanislas (Andre Dussollier) chooses her as subject over, we are told, an axe murderer and a homicidal Pole, for no discernable reason. No matter. From the outset, her insidious charm is clear. And that's half the story -- her complete captivation of Stanislas, the dryest of men, competent and professional but obviously ill-at-ease, even rapped, when placed in a court room alone with such an overwhelming personality...
...novel, stresses her lack of morality. She kills and seduces with equal emotionlessness, even as she verbally seduces the naive sociologist. His complete trust, which becomes a more telling kind of hypnotism, is rewarded by betrayal. The act is in part a reemphasis of the insidiousness of her charm, for in framing Stanislas for a murder she committed (her fourth, with attempts at five and six also during the film), she uses his lawyer to help destroy the crucial piece of evidence against her -- a house. Truffaut indicts her by closing in on their holding hands, on French television...
Thus: The Farmer's Daughter, dressed in high boots and her father's vest, in the proper state of disarray to be almost permanently endearing. The same smile which brought us drinks with a charm that consistently mixed up recipient and drink, eased her out of ugly confrontations with hard core drunks. She contrasted with Wheels' essential inaccessibility. The stuff dreams are made of. An imagined conquest. We talked to The Farmer's Daughter. She talked back...