Word: elegiacally
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...here are Burns and co-writer Geoffrey C. Ward, in the elegiac introduction to the series (as well as to the hefty companion book being issued simultaneously by Knopf): "At its heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game, born in crowded cities; an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating and has excluded as many as it has included; a profoundly conservative game that often manages to be years ahead of its time. It is an American odyssey that links sons and daughters to fathers and grandfathers. And it reflects a host of age-old American tensions: between workers and owners...
...performers in "Smiles of a Summer Night" are uniformly fine, with Bjornstrand and Dahlbeck leading the elegiac minuet. Dahlbeck's face, no longer displaying the blush of youth, makes a great subject for the camera. While Bjornstrand's features oftern seem a mask concealing his ture emotions, Dahlbeck's face bears witness to all the joys and travails to which life has subjected her. Naima Wifstrand as old-Mrs. Armfeldt steals every scene she in which she appears; her impossibly wise old dragon is as good as anything Edna May Oliver ever did in Hollywood...
...screen is so luminous that at times one is almost blinded by it. Coutard has a feel for the way that summer shirts and the use of a hand-held camera accentuates the kinetic quality of bohemian life. Suddenly, the sunlit beauty of the movie's first section seems elegiac; the world the film portrays is so beautiful precisely because it is about...
...watching Smith, whose technique is to explore an explosive public event by interviewing hundreds of participants and then impersonating dozens of them, using only their distilled words. As writing it resembles journalism, but in performance -- as she takes on all races, ages and genders -- the impact is that of elegiac art. While in theory each character could be portrayed by a different actor, Smith regards it as essential to have all of them embodied by one person who also remains unmistakably herself, a black woman: "I think the form speaks to the content. It says something about...
...Lost Soldier" is not particularly profound, but it remains a marvelous film. Its elegiac and celebratory quality is reminiscent at times of the Taviani Brothers' "The Night of the Shooting Stars." Kerbosch has carefully adapted Rudi van Dantzig's autobiographical novel into a sensitive, lyrical film, resonant with truth and the burnished memory of a first love...