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...seems to have just now found: the vast blue sky of Africa, and the rolling plains of the 1950s America in which both Ellellou and Updike attended college. This makes the most beautiful part of the book, striking in its images and complex in its construction; Updike interweaves flashback and narrative to force a sad comparison between the America that believed so deeply when Ike said it was happy, and the nation that since developed out of that same era of uneasy, deluded simplicity. The narrative wanders, like Ellello*u, through a landscape of desolate beauty and frightening foreshadowings...
...revelation seems solid enough as psychology, but if the exhausting process succeeds as drama-and a viewer finds himself veering toward mutiny-it is mostly because the two actresses are superb. We feel stingingly the hopeless adoration of the little girl of 30 years ago (played in brief flashback by Linn Ullmann, Liv's daughter) for the glittering mother who ignored her, and the destructive frustration of the mother who could not show the emotion except through the ordered avenues of music...
...sentimental yet spirited courtships. Doing a bike repair job for Daisy (Virginia Vestoff), Frank falls in love with her. Daisy is a teacher who poignantly wonders how the quiet lessons of the classroom can ever erase from little children's minds the terrorist traumas of the streets. In flashback, Frank's grand father woos Kitty (Maria Tucci), an ardent prototypical feminist...
Uncommon Women and Others, produced by Manhattan's Phoenix Theater, begins as a mini-reunion in a restaurant. Five Mount Holyoke College graduates (the "uncommon" ones) have got together six years later for one of those treacherous show-and-tell sessions. In flashback, the women return to their senior year. The college feels tremors of future culture shock, the expanding, unnerving world of women's goals and options...
Unneccessarily bizarre imagery has often figured prominently in Ken Russell's films, and Valentino certainly upholds this self-indulgent tradition. Russell uses a flashback structure for the narrative. The film keeps returning to shots of Valentino's various former lovers and co-stars pouring out their reminiscences alongside Valentino's corpse lying in state. Their histrionic babblings begin to grate after the first 30 minutes of the movie, and the trite sarcasms tossed out by reporters covering the funeral only compound the absurdity of these scenes. Another sequence finds Valentino behind bars on a bigamy charge. His fellow jailbirds include...