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TROUPE: CIRQUE DU SOLEIL...
FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY IS FORBIDden at Cirque du Soleil, the master of ceremonies announces at the outset of its all new show Saltimbanco, "because of the extreme danger it represents to the people of our world." Our world? To anyone unfamiliar with the previous spectacles of this Montreal-based big top -- Le Cirque Reinvente and Nouvelle Experience -- the emcee's remark will seem twee and pretentious. But he's not kidding. Their world is beautiful, seductive, utterly otherly...
Forget the word circus; it conjures up nothing more magical than slapstick and animal odors. The grand, ethereal Cirque du Soleil is really primal theater -- an age-old blend of music and motion. The weirdly soothing, polylingual background score, which could be elevator music at a harmonious U.N., rolls out a verdant carpet of sound for all the pretty beasts to strut on. At every moment, in every corner of the Cirque world, stagecraft approaches genial witchcraft. It's an out-of-Broadway experience...
...more modern artists: the massive strong men and pathetic acrobats of Picasso's Rose Period are already in Daumier's carnival scenes. Giacometti was deeply influenced not only by Daumier's drawing but by his series of tiny, malignant caricature-sculptures in clay known as Les Celebrites du Juste Milieu...
...films of Eric Rohmer are an acquired taste. Rohmer, who belonged to the French New Wave of the fifties, and who served as director of the influential magazine Les Cahiers du Cinema for six years, is the filmmaker's filmmaker. He describes his work as "a cinema of thoughts rather than actions," and has stated that he doesn't care for commercial success. His movies are sparse and unadorned, almost parsimonious, and many audiences find them irritating and boring. And yet, despite all of this, many of his films are quite enjoyable. The latest release from Rohmer, "A Tale...