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...Dear seekers of light summer entertainment, you have gathered that Bergman's film is not Shrek 2 or Wedding Crashers. It's more like Shriek 42 or Marriage Crushers. To moviegoers raised in the Age of Facetiousness, a dead-serious story about the pain people maliciously or clumsily inflict on themselves and one another must seem a blast from the past. A blast of musty air, that is, best suited for quaint old art-film houses, where the scent of cappuccino mixes with an aura of intellectual smugness. Titles like The Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh...
...Example: Henrik, the most tortured of this quartet, is allowed to reveal his charm before his pain, then his white-hot hatred, are allowed to postulate. Similarly, flashes of grace appear, like epiphanies in the January snow. In church, after Marianne has been singed by Henrik's rage against his father, beams of sunlight burst through the window; it is the visual counterpart of the organ chord that greeted Marianne as she entered. Later there's a privileged moment when Karin is told of a career opportunity and the ecstasy of anticipation briefly floods her face, as radiant as that...
...Where Shall I Wander By John Ashbery Some poets thunder and some poets sing. Ashbery just talks, sifting through the verbal detritus of civilization and making fascinating sculptures out of what he finds. His poems register pain, but at a distance, transformed into a funny wistfulness, as if it all happened a couple of years and a couple of good martinis ago: "It's really quite a thrill/ when the moon rises above the hill/ and you've gotten over someone/ salty and mercurial, the only person you ever loved...
...esque disasters faced with perseverance worthy of, well, Job, including a traumatic childhood move to Florida, a closeted husband, a house-destroying fire, a folded magazine, and breast cancer. Although she emerged on the other side married to the love of her life, she demonstrated a playful ease with pain that only comes with experience and a damned strong sense of the absurd...
...Police reported to Au Bon Pain at 1360 Massachusetts Avenue, where a fight was purportedly taking place. Upon arrival, officers determined that the disagreement had been resolved...