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...film's three parts, "Words," "Faces" and "Pictures" each focus on a different character. "Words" features a young monk, Kiril (Gregoire Colin also of "Olivier, Olivier"), who lives in a 12th century monestary in the mountains of Macedonia. When he discovers a mysterious Albanian girl, Zamira (Labina Mitevska), hiding in his room he is forced to choose between his desire to protect her and his oath to God. The villages in the surrounding hills, filled with hostile Macedonians and Albanians, set the scene for graphic violence...
...Pictures" focuses on Aleksander, who decides to abandon his career and move back to Macedonia. Once there, the film elaborates on the violence initially depicted in "Words." At the end of "Pictures," the young monk is reintroduced at the same instant as when he first appeared in the film. The narrative has come full circle. The events of the entire film have led up to its beginning. Just as in the opening, it begins to rain...
WOODY ALLEN, MAYA ANGELOU, Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte, Lenny Bruce, Betty Carter, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Woody Guthrie, Judy Holliday, Johnny Mathis, Wynton Marsalis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Mort Sahl and Peter, Paul and Mary and countless other legendary jazz and folk musicians, poets and entertainers all have one thing in common. They made their name at a basement dive in New York City called the Village Vanguard. Last week what may be the oldest nightclub in America threw itself a 60th birthday party, and the joint was more jumping than ever...
Huddled on a wintry day near the club's only heater, an ancient foot-long radiator, she points to the gallery of jazz greats' pictures that line the green felt walls. The subjects range from a threesome of Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk (whom Lorraine discovered) to the hot young sax player Joshua Redman. Redman's upcoming Vanguard performances will be recorded for a CD-the latest of more than 100 recordings that have been made at the club over the years...
...unsettling rhythmic complexity of her remarkably independent left hand is especially apparent on the album's only solo track, "In the Middle," an original composition. This is masterful solo piano work in the tradition of Monk or, even more accurately, Allen's fellow-Brooklynite Randy Weston. The sense of modernity and African-American culture that "In the Middle" conveys is a testament to the evocative power of Allen's playing...