Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MISSING Directed by Costa-Gavras...
Screenplay by Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart...
...State of Siege, Costa-Gavras turned politics into melodrama; he propelled the Good Leftists and the Bad Rightists into collision so headlong that the moviegoer had little time to ponder the ideology. In The Conformist and 1900, Bernardo Bertolucci turned politics into opera; anyone susceptible to visual grandeur could be swept away by the characters' emotional arias and the camera's delirious glissandos. Now each has made a film about political kidnaping in a turbulent country-Chile in Missing, Italy in Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man-and has approached the subject at a more measured pace. Without...
...viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies. Spacek and Lemmon, an appealing sweet-and-sour combo, sink in the swamp of good intentions. Perhaps Costa-Gavras should jump back on the locomotive of melodrama. When he stands still, he builds prefab tract houses...
Jagger, recently returned from a tour of Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras and Costa Rica, said she witnessed the forcible abduction of refugees by Salvadoran troops on Honduran soil. Plans to relocate the refugees 35 miles inland from the border would not guarantee their safety because of Honduran military collaboration with the Salvadoran Junta, Jagger added...