Word: murmured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displacement in the tangible world. His trancelike absorption in Go is, in human terms, chilling. Out of place in the Western-style lounge of a resort hotel where he is competing, he gazes indifferently at the panorama of golf courses outside; of the strolling honeymooners he can only murmur tonelessly: "They must be bored." What throws his game off more than anything else is a glaringly unaesthetic move by the challenger ("like smearing ink over the picture we had painted...
...tired, the home team's lead is threatened, and help is needed. The gate in Yankee Stadium's right-centerfield fence swings open and a Datsun painted in pinstripes taxis a relief pitcher toward the diamond. Eyes strain to see who is inside the car, voices murmur, hopes rise. The car stops, the stadium organist sweeps into the regal strains of Pomp and Circumstance, and the crowd exults. Out steps Albert Walter ("Sparky") Lyle. He sheds his warmup jacket with measured nonchalance and strides toward the pitcher's mound, one cheek distended by chewing tobacco...
...Murmur of the Heart, Louis Malle's sensitive study of incest. Central II, 6, 9:55. With Accident, 8:05, weekend...
...this point in the film, a middle-aged man across the aisle leaned in my direction and whispered authoritatively, "Excellent, excellent." He was pleased with Malle's treatment of incest, and with good reason. Murmur plays a traditionally tragic theme in a nostalgically comic key, and proves it can be done with perfect taste, intelligence, and close attention to fleeting emotion. If our notions of the destructive effects of the inevitable disillusionment and sexual confusion of adolescence are too much influenced by the Joyces, Lawrences, and Hesses of this world, then Malle gently insists that it doesn't have...
Without the enticing presence of Malle's understated heresy, Murmur could easily be relegated to the ranks of the pleasant comedies the French have such a reputation for. As it is, (let's be frank) Malle succeeds better with his Gallic charm (Excellent!) than with his tour-deadolescent-psychology. These strange bedfellows make an engaging couple only as far as they can be reconciled into a single film...