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...Avventura (in Italian). A tale of men suffering from the soul-sickness of despair, the film is a nightmarish masterpiece of tedium, a parable of purgation...
...Avventura (Cino del Duca; Janus), made in Italy by a respected but little-known moviemaker named Michelangelo Antonioni, is a nightmarish masterpiece of tedium, a parable of spiritual purgation, a myth for the Anxious...
What Martin has actually done is to become one more proponent of the fantasy art of childhood, for his nightmarish but strangely fascinating dwellings were inspired by his own boyhood home with all its sheltering cosiness and frightening mysteries. "You can penetrate into the heart of the work, which seems important to me. It's like the pleasure of walking in a park." And what does one find after penetrating into a Dwelling? "Why, oneself, of course," says Etienne-Martin...
...tolerance for coincidence arrested them all, found they were pregnant with football bladders filled with booze. Some bootleggers use lepers as delivery boys, confident that the police will shy away from searching them. Others cache their product in containers tied to the underside of manhole covers. Law enforcement is nightmarish in a land filled with palm trees that need only to be tapped to give the hard liquor ingredients of palm toddy...
...Foreign dinners can seem nightmarish. A Western-style finger bowl is "for lightly rinsing the tips of your fingers, so don't wash your hands in it." Japanese must be careful not to stretch out their legs under the table because "you may kick someone. If this is done, apologize quickly, especially in the case of a lady, for in the West this kind of thing is construed in a certain way and can invite misunderstanding." The ultimate and desperate warning: "Whatever happens, never become flustered. Be calm and cool...