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Starts Wed.: LaGuerre Est Finie, 6, 9:45 and Viridiana...
...Guerre Est Finie is a political essay about the remnants of the Old Left revolution, directed by Alain Resnais and starring Yves Montand. The film is not casual entertainment in any sense, and if that's what you're up for this week see something else. But if you're interested in how it felt to be a leftist in the days of the party line, if you feel any sympathy at all for the single-minded pursuit of a political dream, then see this by any and all means. Resnais's movie will touch you, inform you, will make...
Virdiana is the co-feature at the Brattle this week, playing with La Guerre Est Finie. Luis Bunuel made this film in 1961, his first in Spain since Franco threw him out at the end of the Civil War. Franco's generosity was not too long-lasting. The dictator, who is about to go to his just deserts, so disapproved of Bunuel's anti-clericism that he banned the film from his country's movie houses. Anything Franco doesn't like can't be too bad; this is actually quite good...
...arrive, and it gradually becomes clear that class escalation has taken a toll. Stripping away the complex humanity of Storey's characterizations, one sees that the eldest son has become an acerbic, vengeful fire brand; the middle son, a priggish, glossy Establishment apologist; and the young est a haunted, weepy, torn-apart teacher. What is immediately apparent is that the emotional ground between parents and sons has been land-mined. Affections that are not actually felt are masked in billboards ("To the finest mother and the finest dad") while genuine feelings of tenderness are muted in throwaway lines...
...Quod est totum quod ego umquam...