Word: enchanting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Linda Atkinson plays a strange trick on Cherubino, the page with the hormonal imbalance who shouts his love to every woman he meets and whose boyish-girlish looks in turn enchant all the women around him. Atkinson turns this romantic dreamer with ideals dripping from his doublet into a sort of Dennis the Menace of the ancien regime. At first blush, you can't help wondering how this marginally pubescent page would go about kissing one of his idols--he'd have to spit out his bubblegum first. But Atkinson's verve and charm finally overcome the improbability...
...fans can make them intolerable to anyone else. "Authentic footage" usually means endless sequences of grainy, incompetently-shot film and crackling, poorly-recorded sound; the phrase "candid interview" may warn of mumbled, half-unintelligible reminiscences of the dead and the hopelessly obscure. If the music and the musicians absolutely enchant you, then you can easily overlook all this, and even enjoy it, but if jazz only casually interests you, these distractions become boring and unforgiveable...