Word: liar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moviegoer's response to Dirty Hands could be measured graphically, the piece of paper would read like the polygraph printout of a bumbling liar. There is no even pace to this film, which features more peaks and valleys than a postcard of the French Alps. The task of sketching the outlines of the three characters and their tension-packed relationships makes for a plodding introduction to Dirty Hands, but the story suddenly picks up when the adulterers decide to carry out their macabre scheme. The inevitable police investigation maintains the interest level for a while longer before the film enters...
...seems to have enjoyed himself. There was a lunch in New York with the Empress of Iran where he was somewhat disturbed by a University of Wisconsin school newspaper reporter screaming "Liar!" when the woman spoke, but he was reassured by her screne highness's "sincerity and grace under pressure" as the unfortunate heckler was dragged away by Iranian security guards...
...homosexuals. About 50 gays, some wielding baseball bats, hired a bus in Manhattan and headed for Walinsky's home in Scarsdale. When they arrived at 11 p.m., they cut the telephone lines to the house, pelted it with eggs, set off firecrackers, and chanted through bullhorns: "Walinsky, you liar/ We'll set your house on fire." They kept at it for an hour, while the police watched uneasily. Asks Walinsky: "Why do people who claim to want human rights go around like a bunch of Storm Troopers trying to intimidate others from expressing their views...
Jacob the Liar is a film of confinement: at the end of every street, every glance, every joke, is a German rifle muzzle. Inevitably, the comic absurdity of Jacob's mythical radio turns to tragedy. A man is shot down by guards as he tries to pass the cheering news to a group of Jews bound for a concentration camp. In an attempt to redeem himself, Jacob confesses his deception. The letdown causes his best friend to hang himself. Untruth and truth-both come to seem equally false to Jacob...
...analogy, perhaps, to Jacob's trying to cure his neighbors by bringing them what they think is hope). The implication, indeed, is that these colorful visions persist amid the gray rubble of the ghetto just as the human spirit persists amid intolerance and oppression. But Jacob the Liar is too rigorous to claim any sort of triumph for that spirit - only that it is there...