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...represents the disintegrating pre-war society in microcosm. In the sense that the play portrays a group of people, suspended and enclosed while their world slips away from them. Hearbreak House resembles the works of Anton Chekov. In the play's preface, Shaw expresses the desire to write "a fantasia in the Russian manner." A mixture of mystery and melancholy, Hearbreak House could be described as something of a cross between Agatha Christie and Chekhov...
...represents the disintegrating pre-war society in microcosm. In the sense that the play portrays a group of people, suspended and enclosed while their world slips away from them, Heartbreak House resembles the works of Anton Chekov. In the play's preface, Shaw expresses the desire to write "a fantasia in the Russian manner." A mixture of mystery and melancholy, Heartbreak House could be described as something of a cross between Agatha Christie and Chekhov...
...this-and more of a similarly sardonic, ironic nature-enlivens this animated feature from Italy. Clearly not intended for the eyes of young children, Allegro Non Troppo (fast but not too fast) aspires to do for modern audiences what Fantasia did in its day: demonstrate the state of the animator's art as it now exists and lightly suggest its many and varied possibilities as a medium for serious expression. In this regard, it is quite successful...
Setting their work to well-known pieces of classical music, in the manner of Fantasia, Bozzetto and his talented team have created half a dozen imaginative sequences in which their characters-and characterizations-take wing. Using a cheerfully baroque style, free flowing and strong in color and design, the Italians have matched the richness that Disney's animators developed in their great, early years, before their boss forced them into the slick, highly conventionalized mode that has dulled his studio's work ever since Fantasia's early commercial failure. (In rerelease, of course, the movie has been...
Indeed, the production may go some what too far in this direction. To complete the analogy with Fantasia, the film's animated sequences are linked by live-action scenes in which a cruel conductor and an overworked animator are shown in contentious collaboration, farcically knocking each other about and sending up the dignified portentousness of Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Commentator Deems Taylor in their portions of the Disney picture. This is strictly high school skit stuff, far below the general level of the animated material it introduces. The effort ill serves the cause of expanding the audience for serious...