Word: dinies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Repercussions from the surge of the dollar were political as well as financial. In Rome, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi called a special meeting of several Cabinet ministers to discuss what could be done to protect the lira. Said Lamberto Dini, the director general of the Bank of Italy: "Everyone is concerned, both in Italy and in Europe, because what is emerging is an unsustainable pattern of exchange rates." During her scheduled meeting with President Reagan in Washington this week, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher intends to press for assurances that the Administration will take early steps...
...Dini has inherited a certain lack of expressiveness from his father: in the first big scene between him and the girl, Magda(Aniko Ivan), the two snap mechanically at each other. The listless interchange culminates when Dini hold Magda's arm, saying, "I won't let you go." Magda yanks free with a curt "piss off" and walks away...
...about teeny-weeny-twirly-spirals. Yet, the movie gets the benefit of the doubt in this case, since the translation is probably to blame for taking away the meaning of the scene. Some of the lines and gestures, though, can only be schmaltz in any language. At one point, Dini is at a bar with an old con; after explaining his feelings, the con mutters. "And as for women ... ", and the two clink their glasses together...
Like an American Grafitti behind the Iron Curtain, the movie examines its several characters in an Epilogue. This one, though, provides no ironic afterword on the plot. The sexual denouement between Dini and Magda is completely incomprehensible, while the Koves family sings an old national folk song in a vaguely optimistic scene so inconsonant with the rest of the movie that it may have been government-mandated...
Time Stands Still is summed up in one scene in which the Vice Headmaster turns Dini's classroom upside down looking for dirty postcards as the boys stands at attention. The scene drags on and on until the audience gets the same awful, sinking feeling as the boys on the screen. As a piece of anti-communist propaganda such a moment is effective; as a piece of art, it is simply unpleasant...