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DIED. MARIA LUISA BEMBERG, 73, Latin America's foremost female film director; of stomach cancer; in Buenos Aires. Bemberg came to cinema relatively late in life, directing her first film at the age of 59. Typical of her feminist oeuvre was the Oscar-nominated Camila (1984), a melodrama of an aristocratic young woman who seeks romantic happiness with a Catholic priest...
...first thing to note about I Don't Want to Talk About It, Maria Luisa Bemberg's Argentine film (which she and screenwriter Jorge Goldenberg based on a short story by Julio Llinas) is that this is no freak show. It is a poignant, often funny fable, unfolding like a cautionary bedtime tale. It skips delicately among the ruins of passion, obsession and propriety. As in the novel and movie Like Water for Chocolate, family matters are treated in a mode balanced between magic realism and tragic surrealism...
Farther down the avenue, Baldomero Alvarez Rios, 70, shakes his head. "The problem with young people in Cuba today," he says, "is that they have no idea what it was like before the revolution." His wife Maria Luisa Vina Alonso, 67, nods solemnly. Before 1959 they were members of what Maria calls the petite bourgeoisie, but then Baldomero's revolutionary fervor turned him into a party-line journalist. They worked all over the country and even abroad, spreading Castro's word in receptive capitals like Santiago and Mexico City...
Southward lies the dilapidated neighborhood known as La Vibora. There, a gaggle of elderly women cluster in a disintegrating foyer. Pointing to one in the group, they say, Talk to her. She is the anti-revolutionary. Asking to be called Luisa, the 66-year-old mother of an exile is glad President Bill Clinton cut off remittances, even if it means no more money from her son in California. "He pockets the money anyway," she says. Who? "Fidel. Who else?" Alarmed, her companions shush her, and she lowers her voice. "I'd rather suffer a little more than see this...
...homosexuality. Summers offers fresh details of Hoover's 40-year friendship with Clyde Tolson, a handsome young agent he plucked out of the rank and file and quickly promoted to assistant director. The pair ate dinner together almost every night and vacationed together every year; Summers contends that Luisa Stuart, a former fashion model, once saw them holding hands in the back seat of a limo. According to Summers, the Mafia claimed to have the goods on Edgar and Clyde, including compromising photographs of the two men engaging in oral sex. That knowledge provided the mob with rich blackmail material...