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...arrogance alienates him from his wife (Isabella Rossellini) and son. They -- like John Turturro's determinedly patient psychiatrist, a specialist in traumatic stress, and Tom Hulce's determinedly impatient tort lawyer, trying to extract a settlement from the airline -- would prefer a more humble and malleable response to a near death experience...
Rubens, perhaps the greatest name in seventeenth century Flemish art, worked primarily in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp. During the Protestant Reformation, Antwerp was torn apart by fierce religious battles. Only when the devout Catholic Spanish archdukes Albert and Isabella were installed there as governors in 1599 was hope restored to the city. Thereafter, Antwerp experienced a brief renewed Golden Age in business and the arts, and Rubens played an instrumental role. As Albert's and Isabella's court painter, he led an artistic propaganda campaign to proclaim Catholic dominance in the area. Assisted by his students and colleagues, Rubens...
...disguise of mendicant friar to get a perspective on his city. As his deputy during his chooses Angelo on the basis of his reputation for unwavering morality. As expected, the upright Angelo upsets licentious Viennese by sentencing the randy Claudio to death for fornication. When his prim novitiate sister, Isabella, comes to sue for her brother's life. Angelo finds himself consumed by the very lust he condemns, and demands sexual favors for Claudio's release. Shakespeare constructs a detailed examination of judgement, hypocrisy, severity and mercy. In the best Shakespearean comic tradition, the play ends with reconciliation, merriment...
...Williams' ideas breed such confusion. Jennifer Breheny, as Isabella, dons the judge's robe as she makes aa decision about Angelo's unwonted sexual advances, cleverly highlighting the paralel moments of judgement. Angelo himself first appears wearing a bowler hat and an anonymous coat like Magritte's schoolmaster, conjouring up an image of a man without character. And the Duke's self- indulgent megalomanic manipulation becomes evident when he chants his twisted schemes to the music of the band, as if officiating at an arcane religious rite...
...sinister edge to his character. Sinister transformations abound in Alan Ackerman's portrait of Angelo. The upright moralist degenerates into nymphomaniac with an anguish that would evoke sympathy from the most severe judge. Breheny's wide eyed innocence at the start of the drama captures the virginal Isabella perfectly.. But her maiden- in- distress scenes later on lack the same dramatic conviction...