Word: frivolity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seventy-five years is an eon in pop culture. In 1921 movies were silent, radio was an infant, television a dream, alcohol consumption a crime. There were few awards in fields of frivol: Oscars, Tonys, Grammys didn't exist. But some people in Atlantic City thought they should give a prize and a title to a pretty girl. The town was the East Coast's premier seaside resort, so she probably ought to wear a bathing suit. And hoping to extend the summer season, the pageant's creators scheduled it for after Labor...
Excepting a few scenes of adulterous frivol among the ruling class, the film is remarkably fair-minded in doling out bad hands to workers and bosses. But because the theme is that the Industrial Revolution ground human beings into human beasts, Berri can't explore the very individual perfidy that was at the heart of Jean de Florette. Germinal, with its climactic mine disaster and bitter lamentations, is finally buried in its fidelity to its source...
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