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CRAZY QUILT. When a realist and a romantic join in holy matrimony, the union is likely to be stormy and unpredictable. In this almost perfect little film, a husband and wife (Tom Resqui and Ina Mela) spend ten uncompromising years together before learning to cherish their differences...
CRAZY QUILT. When a realist and a romantic join in holy matrimony, the union is likely to be stormy and unpredictable. In this almost perfect little film, a husband and wife (Tom Rosqui and Ina Mela) spend ten uncompromising years together before learning to cherish their differences...
...says the narrator (Burgess Meredith), "that God is dead, that innocence is a fraud and guilt a disease, happiness a myth and despair a pose. And that vice is no more interesting than virtue." Henry works as a termite exterminator and looks like a large unshaven blur. Lorabelle (Ina Mela) is an idealist. "She believes in everything. In Providence and butterflies, romance and statuary." She plays all day long, sniffing flowers and feeding ducks, and looks like the dew on the wings of a wish...
...informed and exercised, but never offers it extraneous excitement. Peter Schickele's score flows so congruously out of the images that the spectator sometimes feels he must be seeing with his ears. And the actors-Rosqui is a member of Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, and Mela an off-Broadway starlet who recently taught Latin in a Long Island high school-move with a fine unregarding spontaneity that turns parts into people. In the relations between these two people Director Korty achieves the fullest realization of his theme. He demonstrates day by day, crisis by crisis...
...nectar in the struggle between the gods and the demons. And it is also holy because it marks the confluence of three sacred rivers-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna and the invisible Sarasvati, which is supposed to flow underground. Every twelve years, the Hindus celebrate the Kumbh Mela (Urn Festival) at Allahabad, bathing in the waters of the three rivers to cleanse themselves of sin. Every six years there is a slightly smaller Urn Festival. Last week saw the climax of one of the six-year festivals, and perhaps the most unusual Allahabad had ever seen...