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...worked into the modest fabric of his story. An old lady (Lili Darvas), nearly 100 and dying with dignity and resignation from the kind of fatigue that cannot be diagnosed or reversed, lies all day in her bed, tended by a maid and by her daughter-in-law Luca (Mari Torocsik). The old lady lives in a twilight of memory, where past and present tend to flow together into a kind of future-imperfect tense. The room is kept clean and carefully lit, although both the room itself and the world outside look dour and gray, as if everything were...
...lost most of his marbles, but is testily ad amant about the rules of checkers. There is the Boy in Quest of Identity, who is trying to track down a missing grandfather. And good for more than a few laughs is the Health-Food Evangelist, played by Mari Gorman with the abrasive tongue and cocked shoulders of a Marine sergeant...
renewed. Mari Evans...
Love memorably chronicles a year in the life of a woman (Mari Torocsik) whose husband has been jailed for unspecified political crimes by the Hungarian secret police. The husband's aging mother is dying. To comfort her, the woman writes long letters, supposedly from the husband, about his fantastic adventures as a film director in America. The old woman (Lili Darvas) finally passes away without ever knowing that her son is in jail. The wife endures, and abruptly, without explanation, her husband (Ivan Darvas) is released and returns home. The moment of their reunion, impeccably acted, rendered with poignant...
...Joli Mari by Chris Marker. Winthrop JCR. 7:30, April 27. Free...