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...Marais, the film tells the story of two 17th century virtuosi, the reclusive Monsieur de Sainte Colombe and his student Marais, who played and wrote music for the viola da gamba. When Sainte Colombe discovers the love affair between his daughter Madeleine and Marais, he banishes Marais from his household and mentorship-to no avail...
...originally conceived as a guy winning his wife in a card game. And then I just kept going," says Francine Prose, author of the novel upon which "Household Saints" is based. One almost wishes that she hadn't kept going. Set in New York's Little Italy in the years following World War II, "Household Saints" is an exploration of the lives of three generations of Italian-American women that starts off rich in detail and comedy, and ends in an inexplicable twist of surrealist abandon...
Under the pretext of examining generational change, "Household Saints" offers us little insight or amusement. Instead of evolving through struggle to balance the experiences of old world and new, the characters in this movie oscillate back and forth from rigid traditionalism to moderation and back again...
...Household Saints" from Friday, Oct. 29 through Thursday, Nov. 11. at 3, 5:20, 7:40 and 10 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 12:40 p.m. This is a dreamily realistic fable, based on a novel by Francine Prose. Set in New York's Little Italy in the years following World War II, this film examines the changing American culture through three different generations of Italian-American women and each woman's unique relationship to faith and family tradition. A freak heat wave causes a father to wager his only daughter against a blast of cool...
...fence-sitters are getting what they want. A handful of lawmakers from districts that produce household broomcorns have been told they will get no help from the White House. On the other hand, Labor Secretary Robert Reich announced this week that the Administration will propose spending an additional $100 million over the next 18 months to workers who lose their jobs as a result of NAFTA -- even though nearly everyone at the White House, including Clinton, opposes the idea as ineffective and thus a waste of money. And the White House is willing to redress problems that have nothing...