Word: headlands
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...film begins in a distinctly un-Latin blizzard in Berlev?g, home to some 1,200 souls. On a headland facing the North Pole, the hardy ensemble solemnly belts out a robust ode to the forces of nature as icicles form on their whiskers. "Finnmark lad, you found your grave/Out on the awesome wave ..." Their songs are interspersed, as the seasons change, with glimpses into individual lives. The men - among them an agnostic church organist, a reformed drug addict and a bellicose communist - are kindly and ornery, childlike and cynical, flirty and stern. The camera lingers over small details...
...rigged fishing boats, triangular scraps of white sail on the blue, are flocking back to port. The pallid horizon is delicately tinted with pink, lavender, yellow. The foreground, with its purple house and lavender rocks, is already darkening. But the sunset has lit up the prismatic shape of the headland to a blazing orange-yellow, a thrilling and almost transcendent intensity. It is the kind of painting that can absorb any amount of looking, and after 10 minutes with it you can appreciate how Signac grasped the sensuous abundance of the world...
...small boutique resort offering handsome bungalows, a pool filled by a waterfall and, in the evening, a candlelit restaurant overlooking the sea; the rate is $100. For reservations, call (62-370) 693-518. Honeymooners or the really flush should head farther north. In vast grounds on its own headland opposite the Gili Islands is the Oberoi, Lombok's premier resort. The huge bungalows are well spaced and beautifully maintained. Some have private pools. Its showpiece is the main pool, sculpted with shallow ponds on either side like a rice terrace, disappearing in seamless steps into the ocean beyond. Sunset...