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...innocence to disco-influenced apathy. Not so in Sweden, where the idealism behind sex, drugs and rock and roll had not yet degenerated to three-somes, cocaine and leisure suits. Luke Moodysson, director of 1998’s well-received Show Me Love, tells the story of the Swedish commune Tillsammans, whose members are trying to piece their ideals into a life, until the arrival of one of the member’s bourgeois sister and her two reluctant children disrupts their routine...
...battered mom and her wary, angry kids take refuge in a Stockholm commune, mismanaged by her sweetly passive brother. The time is the early '70s, and some of the hippies are, perhaps, secretly yearning for red meat, TV and conventional structures. Still, they have some useful things to teach their visitors about free-form domesticity. And some equally useful things to learn about traditional virtue. We, meanwhile, are free to adore a sad, funny, always good-natured film that eccentrically, tolerantly explores that moment when revolutionary ardor commingled with bourgeois stolidity to form our present weirdly ambiguous culture...
Rogers’ works include, Moving Pictures, a documentary on Polish animator Jan Lenica, Elephants, a look at his own personal family history and Siena, Chronicles of a Medieval Commune...
...this summer, Barbara “Boe” Morgan is going to classes and learning the customs like everyone else. But sit down to afternoon tea with her and she’ll tell you about growing up with seven brothers and sisters, living in an organic gardening commune in southern New Hampshire and driving for decades on the interstates of America...
...widely praised predecessor, Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, came out in 1998) are delicious reads: witty, reflective accounts of her experiences in, around and through food. They are perfectly balanced meals accompanied by recipes: the shrimp curry she cooks as a farewell to her Berkeley commune, the mushroom soup she makes to console her mother during a financial crisis, the lemon pasta Danny Kaye concocts for her when he reveals that he's a food-loving fellow traveler...