Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teenaroons, it's nostalgia time, as we move into the groove with the supersound of yesteryear! Let me sock it to ya - the Beatles, a pow-pow-pounding boogie beat, four blattzing saxes and a nitty-gritty ditty called Lady Madonna! Yeah...
...wait. The Beatles' Lady Madonna is no golden oldie, as the disk jocks say-gone from the charts but not from our hearts. It's their latest single, recorded before they went off to meditate in India last month, and released on both sides of the Atlantic last week. It bears the hallmarks of all their most recent work: a deft arrangement, superb engineering, and a lyric (sung by Paul McCartney in what is known as his "Elvis voice") that combines blithe humor with sharp social portraiture of a hard-pressed mother...
...which may not amount to an outright resurgence of the old rock 'n' roll-but it is a start. And considering the potent influence of the Beatles, the release of Lady Madonna means that there can only be more...
...deep, our girl Anastasia. She is a being. All the others are characters, shadows of her illumination. I call her a witch, but she is not a promiscuous variation on Sinister Madonna (the Hunter girls?), classic marble zombie who ruled with an iron broomstick. No, Desire tells of human witches and the witchcraft of love. Strange fires burn here, and one could look a long time without understanding. Apparently Anastasia is destroying herself. Others come to pillage, sometimes to help, and lo! discover that they have been deceived. No warm sweets from the blaze. In this parable of bad love...
...dull out-of-focus journey, a bum trip. In another scene six consecutive point-of-view shots reach for tedium. But the hiatus of time often catches qualities unnoticed by a tick-tock eye. A long closeup--almost a still--of Samantha's fragile face penetrates to the madonna calm and compassion she possesses. The epiphany is not just the result of Maeve Kinkead's fine acting. Hunter takes the time to look, really look--and we see. When Anastasia washes body paint off her legs, the marijuana camera stops time to absorb the beauty of this motion still-life...