Word: michelangelo
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...often achieves a noble seriousness that makes the drama seem almost a rite-as is only appropriate: classic tragedy was the Dionysian counterpart of the Christian Mass. The actors without exception excel, but Actor Vallone beggars comparison. He is the gritty essence of stevedore. He looks like one of Michelangelo's Captives, half man. half rock...
...sliced-up spaces of his prisons are akin to cubist abstraction, but this seems a cold sort of evaluation for a man like Piranesi. He conceived visions of Rome, Horace Walpole said, "beyond what Rome boasted even in the meridian of its splendor. Savage as Salvator Rosa, fierce as Michelangelo and exuberant as Rubens, he has imagined scenes that would startle geometry, and exhaust the Indies to realize. He piles palaces on bridges, and temples on palaces, and scales Heaven with mountains of edifices. Yet what taste in his boldness! What labor and thought both in his rashness and details...
...AVVENTURA. The year's finest film, possibly a great one: Michelangelo Antonioni looks long and carefully, as if through a microscope, at the life of a lecher, at "the sickness unto death, which is despair...
FENWAY: Still holding forth is Michelangelo Antonioni's lengthy but carefully turned tale of aristocratic decadence at a Sicilian party, L'Avventura...
Fenway: L'AVVENTURA, the longwinded jewel of Italian director Michelangelo Antonini, unwinds the story of decadent Romans on a Sicilian Island and their search for one of their party who is missing. As good or better than La Dolce Vita...