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Most arresting of all, though, is Gance's Triptych Polyvision at the end of the film. Images appear on two more screens and an enormous panorama is scanned. The pictures break up and reconstitute. In a frenzy the film recapitulates and progresses...
...words and music. The strength of Bellucci and Hackett, addressing the audience with this particular account of original sin, is electrifying. Nothing more is needed to drive the message through the spectator's heart than the voices of the hardened tart and her procurer, accusing yet beseeching, against the panorama of human misery. Tempted to condemn them, the audience finds itself at fault; it is a hard lesson to take, but a lesson it is, nonetheless. It stands as one of the high points of the entire production...
This bio-documentary drama is presented by Stamford, Conn.'s Hartman Theater Company in the style of an epic panorama. Masterly orchestrated by Director Edwin Sherin to women's dying wails and the irate melodramatic confrontations of men in white whose hearts are black, Semmelweiss sifts its way to the stillness of revelation...
Several scenes stick out: The sorry-eyed children reluctantly munch on their morning bagels and milk: the sobering footage of World War I's devistation and of its wounded living in the pogroms: the spectacular sights of the bustling backdrop of the prosperous cities, the panorama of Pilsudski's funeral, and the sweeping shots of synagogues...
With the Pope speaking so effectively, Italy's pollsters are cautiously predicting that the referendum to tighten the abortion law will win. A recent survey, commissioned by the Milan weekly Panorama, indicated that 60% of Italian voters-and 63% of the women-would approve the restricting referendum...