Word: passional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roth's novel, The Professor of Desire. His story of a young man's effort to arrive at sexual and romantic happiness is funny, written with a pungent Rabelasian wit, but marked by an underlying not of wistfulness. He portrays a dissatisfation almost inherent in living, the incompatibility of passion and peace and the transcience of happiness...
...marriage gives rise to a period of depression and unwilling chastity in David's life. A young teacher named Claire rescues him, and David feels he has found at last a sure and steady happiness. But while summering with Claire in a house in the country, David feels his passion waning and realizes that within a year he will lose his desire for Claire, his most precious possession...
...than men. Since they are played by Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave, it's hard to imagine how Julia could fail -but fail, to a sad extent, it does. For all the taste, talent and money that have been lavished on this film, it is stubbornly lacking in passion and life...
...Hellman, who has previously come across as a rather abrasive ninny, suddenly becomes a figure of some substance and courage. Redgrave's Julia-who is generally shortchanged by the film-metamorphoses into a complete revolutionary; her calm voice and flaming eyes convey both the serenity and passion of the true believer...
...With the exception of Conn's honestly maudlin performance, every element of You Light Up My Life is cynically conceived; the film's inspirational message and big emotional moments owe more to recent hit movies than they do to any human reality. If Brooks has any genuine passion, it's apparent only when he shamelessly stops his film dead to plug the five ballads he has composed for the sound track. The sentiments in the songs are all canned-but then again so is Pepsi...