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Nureyev's determination is nowhere more evident than in class with Stanley Williams, a coach at the School of the American Ballet. Dressed in thick gray leg warmers and a tired white leotard, Nureyev looks sloppier than the rest. A pianist pumps out This Nearly Was Mine while the class practices rapid combination exercises that end in a burst of squeaking slippers. Nureyev finishes last. Working very slowly, he clears an envelope of space round him in which each ringer, each joint, every muscle locates its place. "Keep the arms closer to the body for balance and to project...
...MIDDLE OF THE WORLD, also made by a Swiss, Alain Tanner (The Salamander), is as coolly intelligent and as subtle as La Paloma is giddy. The film concerns the intense affair between an engineer running for local political office (Philippe Leotard) and a waitress (Olimpia Carlisi). Their joyous mutual carnality nearly convinces them both that they were made for each other. The engineer still believes it, in fact, when the waitress leaves him. This film is wise in the ways and reasons people deceive themselves, rich in its exploration of the blindness that fervor can bring...
...able to return to his influences and loves, and make sequences reminiscent of the chaos of his earlier films. They are numerous, and of nearly equal quality, but their prime value is to allow the director to characterize. And this film is filled with characters. Husband Clovis (Philippe Leotard), a drunken, brawling, truly ignorant ass of a man, whose battered, yet ornamented bright red Peugeot echoes so many street-customized '57 Chevies; who is introduced by his racy two-toned shoes. Saloon singer Sam Golden (Guy Marchand), Truffaut's parodied homage to Bogart and gangsters, a man who can only...
ZWICK HAS FORMED an elaborate refrain of dance and eerie choral ritual. The cast leaps around the stage in simple leotard costumes as it enacts the joy of conquest of the pain of death, reciting biblical passages. Then the actors stop dead in their tracks, while one or two characters speak. A mounting dirge of Hebrew mourning songs is especially provocative...
...heaven just now. It is late fall in Vermont, and the first wet snows have already fallen on the 500-acre campus of Bennington College. Coeds in fringed wool ponchos and muddy boots straggle along the paths to their classes. In Commons Theater, a lone dancer in a leotard is rehearsing her interpretation of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. In Studio 236 of a stone mansion called Jennings Hall, a violinist tirelessly polishes the opening of a Mozart quartet. Among them all walks Gail Parker, a handsome brunette of 29, who so little expected...