Word: passione
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children seem like mature adults. It is set at a small resort town in Brittany, where the young and old characters claim they understand what love is--they discuss it incessantly and they try to capture it. But in the end they discover they have only flirted with passion...
...their men turn into beasts. That is natural, Döblin and Fassbinder suggest: we are all predatory animals, driven by the compulsions to fornicate and dominate. A bear of a man, Franz makes love with feral ferocity, strapping his mate around his body, biting her neck in carnivore passion. It takes a special kind of actor to play Franz, and Lamprecht, who looks like a cross between Emil Tannings and Hermann Goering, has the stolid majesty for the role. As for Fassbinder's actresses, they have always been lush galvanizers who surrender voluptuously to the jagged contours...
...royal couple lives in the modest 15-room Fukiage Palace near the sumptuous $36.1 million official palace. Their compound includes a two-story lab in which the Emperor pursues his one consuming passion: marine biology. As the world's leading authority on hydrozoans (jellyfish and related creatures), he has written 16 books in the field...
...would have us believe is just such a woman Mieko eventually comes to fully possess her daughter-in-law, Yasuko, whom, she uses to enact a bizarre revenge plot, not directed at anyone in particular, but rather at the vague target of past misfortune Throughout the novel, the obvious passion and energy of Mieko are hidden behind a face which reveals no emotion, similar to the masks actresses wore in Japanese No Dramas...
Needless to say, the Mannons are not your typical family. The incestuous love Orin (Alek Keshishian) feels for his mother and the similar feelings Vinnie (Amy Brenneman) has for her father incite the pair to murder. Passion, jealousy, revenge and guilt ooze from the play like poisons. In O'Neill's hands, the characters' idiosyncracies give us modern insight into the psychological motivations for the original Greek figures...