Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAUGHTER IN THE DARK. Anna Karina (an usherette) is the taunting, haunting object pursued by a wealthy blind Englishman (Nicol Williamson). The script was carefully adapted from Nabokov's exploration of jet-black humor...
POPI. The plight of the poor is told with humor and bite in this surprisingly successful comedy. Alan Arkin is magnificent as a Puerto Rican widower with three jobs, struggling to get his children out of a New York ghetto...
...mentality of a people who have survived politics (both their side's and the other's) only because they have grown accustomed to treating life and all it brings as, at best, a blasphemous joke. As The Hostage makes clear, even death--however black--has its own peculiar humor...
...fast (the ending, particularly, is quite confusing), while all the time throwing in lets of contemporary asides. I could quibble over whether many of the adlibs should have been included. (Mentioning Bristol, Disneyland, and Somerville in the same line doesn't strike me as particularly funny. Even black humor has limits.) But it soon becomes pointless to argue over individual pieces--suffice to say, that when they are good, they are very, very good although when they are bad they are quite horrid...
That is not the only issue, however. A number of experts are agreed on one point: erotic art often unduly celebrates sexual prowess to the exclusion of such qualities as tenderness, patience, courage, humor or honesty. If sex is universally regarded as the ultimate status symbol, as Playboy and the pornocrats suggest, many responsible adults will wind up feeling cheated, and alienated; at the same time, and ironically, the aim of sex will become mental rather than sensory...