Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something about himself. It had to be something that he really and honestly considered the "very worst action he had ever committed in his life. But he was to be honest-that was the chief point. He wasn't to be allowed to lie" -Dostoevsky's The Idiot...
Modern Russian novels are rather like intricate tapestries: each position has effect and meaning only when one considers the development of the total work. Dostoyevsky's Idiot is no exception. An amalgam of theology, philosophy and realism, it is complex and ponderous. Any attempt to bring it to the screen is ambitious, and though the interpretation at the Brattle may not retain all of the profundity of the prose, it represents a moderate artistic success...
...novel Dostoyevsky's character is wise and good, but his frequent epileptic fits seem paradoxical to his moral eloquence. In the film, the Idiot is more a character of insight and candor. His fits have a mystical quality and come on him when he is confronted by someone seeking a solution to life in evil. Amidst the cunning Russian aristocracy he is an unconscious link with the metaphysical, and Gerard Philipe's performance falters only when he lends more melancholy to his lines than poetic innocence. Edwige Feuillere portrays the bold yet sensitive women who first seeks happiness...
...With The Idiot the Brattle is showing George K. Arthur's The Stranger Left No Card. Winner of the 1953 Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prize, this vignette tells the story of an eccentric prestidigitator who commits an almost perfect crime. It provides a pleasant balance to the program...
...television's stable of 35 home-life comedies, it is a rare show that treats Father as anything more than the mouse of the house-a bumbling, well-meaning idiot who is putty in the hands of his wife and family. Latest but different entry in this competition to sell Pop short is a boisterous CBS show from Hollywood called That's My Boy! (Sat. 10 p.m., E.D.T.; sponsor: Plymouth). Dad, as portrayed by spade-jawed Supper Club Comic Eddie Mayehoff, is a middleaged, nine-letter man out of old Rossmore U. whose driving passion is to make...