Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film's plot, loosely patterned after The Cousins by Chabrol, is poorly handled. A guy comes to Cambridge to stay with a friend. His friend invites him to a party, where he meets a girl with whom he falls in love, but his hopes for their relationship are dashed when she suddenly decides to live with his friend. The various changes in their relationship are not adequately explored or explained, but are simply related, and are therefore hard to accept...
...assume man to be man, and his relation to the world to be a human one. Then love can only be exchanged for love, trust for trust, etc. If you wish to enjoy art you must be an artistically cultivated person: if you wish to influence other people you must be a person who really has a stimulating and encouraging effect upon others. Every one of your relations to man and to nature must be a specific expression. corresponding to the object of your will, of your real individual life. If you love without evoking love in return...
...dark deserted room, showing her surrounded by space seventy feet below. Unlike the usual Hitchcock high-angle, this shot expresses with a sort of warm detachment the romantic dimension of her personal anguish. The same attitude follows her and her uncle through the darkening stages of a deep love-attachment. Throughout they are true personalities, not walking abstractions. In parallel, the plot repeatedily breaks formulas to include sequences invented by a sympathetic, intuitive reaction to the personal material of the plot...
...Under Capricorn realizes the best romantic trends of late forties and early fifties Hitchcock. It's an example of the change to dramas with few characters, and to a style which makes their relations almost tangible. The love-relations between Under Capricorn's characters become sweeping camera movements attached mainly to Ingrid Bergman...
...when I sat down with food and drink at that tavern in Ithaca, New York, and when I heard the dull roar of the drunkards, the crude jests, the easy women, I began to love the men that had admitted Cornell into the Ivy League...