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...early, glowering closeup, she eyes the camera: two threats, framed in mascara. This is a face made to smolder--the young Brando womanized. She knows she can hold a movie's center just by being onscreen. And she grows with the role. A star is born? Better: an actress. Watch out, Jennifer Lopez. Rodriguez is a challenger who could be the next champ...
...front page of Thursday's New York Times. There, splashed across three prominent columns in prime acreage above the fold, the Times presented this story: "GIULIANI TO SEEK SEPARATION FROM WIFE OF 16 YEARS: Tearful Hanover Says She Tried to Keep the Couple Together." Above the story ran two closeup color pictures, big as TV screens - one of New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani (looking ashen and hyperstressed, his face cropped tight from combover to chin, with a quote for a caption: "We've grown independent, we've grown more separate over the years; who knows why those things happen...
...closeup view of Seaboard, let's begin with Albert Lea. For most of this century, Wilson Foods operated that pork plant and was the town's largest employer. Wilson fell on hard times in the early 1980s, cut workers' average annual pay from $22,200 to $16,600 and eventually sold the plant to Farmstead Foods. In turn, that company went belly-up a few years later, after it lost its biggest customer--Wilson. Then, in December 1990, just as workers were receiving the last of their unemployment checks, Seaboard appeared...
Kieslowski and his gifted screenwriting colleague, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, knew that drama begins with the human face; it is a sponge for the viewer's emotional complicity. So the camera takes closeup mug shots of faces in love or anxiety. Or it crouches furtively, behind a tree, in a closet like a fretful nephew or an avid voyeur. It watches ordinary people (including some of the most beautiful actresses in Europe) tangling with moral demons, holding on to what they were taught to believe or--this being real life in Poland just after martial law--what they have learned to settle...
...skin. The body is hunched; it needs a cane for support. Getting a first glimpse of Marcello Mastroianni here, the viewer is not surprised that this was the last film he completed before his death in late 1996. Was he only 72? He looks a decade older, frailer. A closeup could be like an autopsy, were it not for the actor's perennial ease and grace before the camera...