Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.L.O. as the acknowledged voice of the Palestinians has not helped the cause of negotiation, but it is a fact that Israel must face. Nor does the game of brinkmanship, such as the one that is being played in the waning days of the U.N. mandate, bring peace any closer...
...society. Bergman has never isolated these passions before. For the past two decades the characters in his movies have been searching for something beyond middle-class love--thus the brooding solemnity of so many of them--but Marianne and Johan can envision nothing more. Scenes From A Marriage is closer to more of life for more of us, so its little nips of recognition are more frequent and less profound than in Bergman's other movies: thus the frequent claim, already made by both critics and promoters, that it is his most accessible film...
...emotions would be moving even if grounded in nothing at all. Sven Nykvist's photography, that normally adds so much to the metaphysical quality of Bergman's moods, is simplified in this film for the small TV screen. The TV close-ups bring the film even closer to the everyday passions of home...
...gotten closer to the truth by not being deluded by the mass psychology of the nuclear power enthusiasts," Inglis said...
...obvious comparison is Bleak House, which so sharply used law courts as a metaphor for 19th century England. But Snow is closer to Trollope (whose biography he is now writing) than to Dickens. For he is finally interested in showing how the system works, rather than in asking why or making a fuss about it. His wariness makes for low-level emotions. What Critic V.S. Pritchett said of Trollope could be said of Snow: "Reading him is like walking down endless corridors of carpet...