Word: denouement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bernard is determined to return their relationship to its old obsessive level. When Mathilde resists emotional imprisonment, he creates a scandalous scene at a party. The incident cauterizes his wounds, but it opens hers. This role reversal leads to her breakdown, and to the film's surprisingly tragic denouement...
...woman with two sons, works in an isolated house as the town's switchboard operator. She meets a fresh-faced sailor (handsomely played by Eric Roberts); there is a tender affair, another man (Sam Shepard), a pair of resentful layabouts, an abrupt slash of melodrama. Except for the denouement, Raggedy Man proceeds with the even pace of a journey over the Texas plains as seen through a child's wide eyes...
...overcome the weaknesses in the play itself. Peter Stein has directed with a great deal of thought; and in some respects, he has presented the show as a series of miniatures complete in themselves, maintaining a flow while allowing each scene with its own vacillating emotions. The elaborate denouement, always the bane of this play, and most often done as some sort of grand processional, is handled masterfully, Stein allowing the Duke's flair to carry the audience along. It is strangely exhilarating, yet maintains a gnawing sense of blackness and futility. The note is sounded, but the emphasis left...
...number of misadventures, the man and the woman will fall in love, and the youngsters will learn to abandon their wayward ways. The children's growing affection for their driver will, in turn, soften him so that he can be molded into respectability in time for a denouement that will not miss a single upbeat note...
...three U.S.O. couples are not developed as separate entities to a sufficient degree. Howard Cohen as Hiram Parts stands out from the group, but in all, the characters tend to get lost in the shuffle. Why Sellon then insists in the second act that each couple have a denouement duet is incomprehensible unless it was just for the sake of tying up the many loose ends. By doing so he simply deprives the show of its punch and brevity...