Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vietnamese and feminine perspective, basing his movie on the memoirs of Le Ly Hayslip. And if you can't wait for the December opening of Heaven and Earth for a Vietnamese take on the ravages of war, scout around now for From Hollywood to Hanoi, a singeing documentary journey on film by Tiana Thi Tranh...
...most memorable is Leete, which begins in darkness with an amatory grope in a formal garden and ends in darkness as a new bride goes off to her rough-hewn, rural marriage bed. This journey is made by a daughter of a highborn member of Parliament to avoid being a pawn in political maneuverings by her father (played with poignancy and ruthlessness by artistic director Newton). She rejects a lord in favor of the family gardener, a sweet-natured man whose heart belongs, hopelessly, to her sister-in-law. The deliberately oblique text may frustrate audiences who want to know...
...belief -- in God, in dreams, in the rolling sing-along cadence of a doo-wop bass line. "We all end in the ocean,/ We all start in the streams,/ We're all carried along/ By the river of dreams." And by effortlessly sophisticated, perfectly primal music. It makes the journey of faith as jaunty as a Nintendo quest...
...added to a basic string quintet. Cellos and basses come and go; horns, trombones and contrabassoons add color; a full string orchestra emerges, along with a vocal choir. Finally, pop singer Tom Waits joins in, his raspy, passionate baritone contrasting with the old man's reedy tenor. Its long journey finished, the music slowly drifts away on the wings of this unlikely duet...
...finale, nevertheless, did not bring a full house to its feet. Evidently not moved to continue with Bartok on this journey, some of the audience quickly dashed out of the open-air theater after the third movement. At the end of the fourth movement, still more made their exit. The great majority, however, redeemed themselves by coaxing a rerun of the fifth movement as an encore with their unending applause. Clearly, much of the audience realized just how special the evening...