Word: melodrama
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Loss of Innocence. The mood and melodrama of bittersweet 16 are evoked with irony and charm in this British adaptation of Rumer Godden's thriller of sensibility, The Greengage Summer...
...Joss speaking. She is 16, English, carefully brought up, and if she suspects that hockey isn't living she doesn't really know what is. This British adaptation of a 1958 novel (The Greengage Summer) by Rumer Godden describes, with delicacy, irony, passion, poignance, wisdom, melodrama, and all the charm and fragrance of a young girl's rising summer, how Joss begins to live, begins to love, begins to die among the greengage orchards of Champagne...
Grave Ghost. The baron returns, some years later, to leave one last raffish memento. But with his death of a heart at tack, melodrama begins smothering the life of Author Denti di Pirajno's novel. At novel's end, Ippolita is not only the sole mistress, but also the greatest monster of the House of Raugeo...
Cold Wind in August (Troy; Aidart), a rutty melodrama about a thirtyish stripteaser (Lola Albright) who falls in love with a 17-year-old janitor's son (Scott Marlowe), does not merely invite cynicism, it drags cynicism in off the street and loosens its tie. Obviously, the film will be a financial success, because it is loaded with skin-on-skin sex. No cynicism here, nor in the observation that part of the film's distinct, if flawed, artistic success is due to a tight budget...
Awkwardness of plot rather than deficiency of emotion sometimes gives Director France Stiglic's superbly photographed film the itchy feel of melodrama. By happenstance, Ruth meets a trooper who recognizes her while she is walking in a park forbidden to Jews. After that she hides indoors, till one day, during an air raid, she can stand it no longer and runs out into the sunlit, deserted streets only to see a notice pasted to a wall: her father has been condemned to death. As the all-clear sounds, she is captured and packed into a cattle...