Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airfield-and full of ornament. Her dressing table overflows with gleaming toilette articles. A mirror atop it reflects her maidservant twice, filling much of the frame with her image. Very little of the rest of the room appears, and although the space over her shoulder is quite deep, this depth gives us no idea of the order of the place, although her femininity and high social class have been very strongly established by the objects and furniture. All the details of the room are there, but they give us only the feeling of the situation...
...tell where he is going. But as he walks into it the camera tracks wildly across his back, completely changing the dynamics of the space. On the left the room seems to extend quite far, but as he walks we find that a mirror has created an illusory depth, that the space is ordered quite differently than we thought...
...refusing to take his murder seriously the characters remove all ideal depth from life. They dedicate themselves to a world of dark confusion, textures of broken light and shadow without order, violent emotional events with scant meaning. In thus interpreting the continuity of social process and order after individual death, Renoir finally recognizes the seriousness of his material. His fluid and continuous relationships between men, his heroes' deaths at the hands of society are given the atmosphere of horror they deserve. Renoir is morally engaged in Rules of the Game as in few other films...
...depth and emotional impact of particular characters are not Ophuls' sole aims. Toward the end, as characters and episodes come faster and the unifies of time and space begin to soften, a certain flattening of emotions increases. In the last episode memory breaks down, events lose their poignancy, and the number of characters prevents deep involvement with any of them. A quality of regret and detachment, of precise character-description without emotional immediacy, leads us out of the drama as it completes its circular plan. Ophuls, like Sirk, believes that art should establish distances...
...TIME's board, seeking members who represent every school of economic thought, all parts of the country and a wide variety of institutions-banks, universities, corporations, foundations, private consulting firms. We hope that our dialogue with the new board will enable TIME to convey a greater range and depth of opinion to an increasingly better informed readership...