Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charm of dilapidation goes only so far. Today Hanoi is mostly drab, and you are very conscious that you are in a Communist city. North Vietnamese, Soviet and Chinese films play in the cinemas. Red flags are everywhere, and everywhere is the legacy of a war that has lasted for 30 years. Hanoi has not one but three war museums-one showing the battle of Dien Bien Phu, another acts of "American terrorism" and the third the thousand-year resistance against the Chinese and Mongols...
...dreary life by becoming a cat burglar, sort of a country cousin to Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief. Fortunately, O'Neal does not try to impersonate Grant, as he did in What's Up, Doc?, but instead scuffs through the part with his own vagrant charm. He is given a girl friend, played by Jacqueline Bisset, one of the few young actresses who really can get by on looks alone; and a nemesis, Warren Gates, an actor who can always be trusted to shape a full characterization even from some sketchy motivation and a few scraps...
...quite. Director Bart McCarthy's characters have little charm, their lines have little music, and their interaction has no comic side. Maybe I exaggerate. Chekov will survive quite a bit, possibly including this production...
...parts other men confidently assume: seductive lover, charismatic leader, gallant warrior. In Pacino's conception, Richard's ultimate triumph is not to become King but to put on the whole world. His ultimate tragedy is that he cannot deceive himself. But with what energy - with what charm, with what venom - does Pacino stretch Richard toward his illusions, like a Pirandello character trying to obliterate the obdurate line between actuality and fantasy...
...clearly and fondly knows the two-footed creatures on his rounds as well as the fourfooted. The result is a collection of word pictures of rural Britain in the 1930s, when the author was starting his career. Like Norman Rockwell sickroom paintings, All Creatures owes some of its charm to the certainty that a lot more antibiotics are used now than four decades...