Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harem paints a poignant picture of two boys, Pat and Madjid (Remi Martin and Kader Boukhanef), who commit aimless acts of delinquency, wandering through the streets of a French village with nothing to depend on except their friendship. Through this portrait, the film also addresses some essential questions in society, from racism to poverty to the meaning of life...
...background of this film is poverty, rendered with realistic ambiguity, by means of shots of grey streets, shabby clothing, and simple clowning of street kids. The film makes no didactic statement about the evils of poverty, but shows us its results, good and bad, through the actions of Pat and Madjid...
...most chilling aspect of poverty, according to this film, is not Pat and Madjid's cheerful delinquency, ripping off wealthy tennis club locker rooms or stealing chocolate from the local store. Instead, Charef conveys the desperate permanence of poverty through a series of minor female characters who see prostitution as the only escape from their condition...
...seen Titus Andronicus, all emphasize the savagery that befalls well-governed states when just men fail to hold on to power. Titus features three hands chopped off, one tongue cut out, two doses of unknowing cannibalism, plus gang rape, and murders by sword, starvation and bleeding to death. Director Pat Patton represents the gore in Japanese fashion, with streamers of red ribbon, but audiences still titter as bodies heap up on the stage. Titus, a great general defied by his children and betrayed by his country, is often regarded as a forerunner of King Lear, lacking only the self-realization...
...happiest find indoors is George Abbott's first hit, the 1926 Broadway, which invented what have since become the cliches of backstage sagas and gangster melodramas. Pat Patton's staging abounds with campy cabaret numbers, menacing slapstick and chorus-girl goofiness, and centers on a superbly acted struggle for the heroine between a sinuous mobster (Castellanos) and a cheery hoofer (Brian Tyrrell). Broadway celebrates the gutsy traditions and restorative powers of the theater. Some 2,500 miles off Broadway, Ashland does the same, season after season...