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Adults are reduced to hazarding standard, sad guesses about what motivates these daredevils. "They're probably bored," says local psychologist Robert Craig. "It's cold and rains a lot. It's not the most exciting place to be if you're a teenager." Mimi Mahon, a nursing professor at the University of Pennsylvania, offers the truism that "kids believe they are impervious to injury." Patricia Shingledecker, Michael's mother, suggests helplessly, "All people somewhere are looking for a thrill...
Mark's parents, played by Mimi Kennedy and Scott Paulin, try to get through to their "troubled" son with the overbearing "I remember when I was your age" speeches. Paulin has such lines as, "what a lech he is," meaning Mark after he is found with Nora. Kennedy's character responds, "well he must have learned it from his father" (immediate parental embrace and kissing follow). Such an inane portrayal of adults fits with the 14-year-old audience the writer was aiming...
...film's rather homely Mimi (Evelyne Didi) isn't the fragile beauty of Puccini's opera, but she turns out to be just as consumptive. Her romance with Rodolfo is halfhearted; in a movie preoccupied with hunger, the couple's appetite for each other is depressingly dull. Musette (Christine Murillo) is so marginal to the film's action as to be an extra...
Despite fundamental plot weaknesses, the film is visually stunning, and, more than the absurdity, this is its saving grace. It is not really about the tragic love of Rodolfo and Mimi, or even about the life of dissolute artists. The film's only true heroine is Paris, the gritty, alienating city of the post-war years. To achieve this quality of romantic seediness, Kaurismaki fled the Left Bank for the working-class suburbs of Malakoff and Ivry-sur-Seine...
Teaching and learning are the keys for ex-convicts to adjust successfully to mainstream society, according to Mimi Silbert, president of the Delancey Street Foundation, in a speech last night at the Cronkhite Graduate Center...