Word: fuga
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...opted for Tuscany, inviting only their closest relatives. "We'd been on holiday there and just fell in love with it," says Ramsay. Some Internet research led the couple to settle on a ceremony in the town of Certaldo, and to entrust the planning to WeddingItaly by Punto di Fuga, an Udine-based company that handles 200 weddings a year and arranged the paper work, ceremony, photography, flowers and reception. When Ramsay and Tjalsma were married last month in Certaldo's 12th century governor's palace, the wedding went off without a hitch. It was presided over by a representative...
...first half ended with an excellent performance of Luigi Dallapiccola's Due Studi, an early serial work full of surprises, such as a major triad that appears to come out of nowhere. The second movement of the piece, "Fanfara e Fuga," served as a perfect vehicle for Schulte's dexterous playing...
Hitchcock's phrase "photographs of people talking" should be hammered into the popular vocabulary. It defines an astoundingly large proportion of the mediocrity that passes for cinema, and it suggests such calumny as La Fuga deserves: "photographs of people thinking...
...Fuga seeks to identify itself with Fellini and the Confessional School of scripting. Sunstruck, overexposed, high contrast dream sequences play out in silence, or with spooky music. Nothing unusual happens in them, though. The unconscious was never before so uninteresting...
Incongruously good photography, and an excellent performance by Anouk Aimee, serve as counterweights for this film's amateurish bumbling. Without them and without the recurrent outcry of an unspeakable musical score, La Fuga's every audience might find merciful numbness from what now is a laser ray of cruelly focused tedium...