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...nevertheless must rank as well as one of the ten best foreign films of 1960. Despite an excruciating musical score, a didactic plot, and some rather pointless satire about American do-gooder schnooks, the movie must be admired for its brilliant photography and obvious zestful enjoyment of Grecian peasant life--and, of course, its week-night diversions. Evenings...
Implicit in the hair-shirt approach is a curiously inverted or disguised condescension. It assumes that the peasant has no tolerance, no appreciation of differences, no standards of hospitality. It assumes that the villager would demand complete conformity to his own mores before he would accept the Peace Corps member as an individual. Both these assumptions are sheer nonsense. The peasant may be illerate, but he is not stupid, and he is as keenly aware as any anthropologist of the social divisions in his own world. He will expect the American teacher to live as a teacher...
...decided that Campalans would be a Catalan born in 1886, the fifth son of a peasant family. Adding details, he had "J.T.C." run away from home, pursue an actress to Barcelona, meet Picasso, invent Cubism ("It's simple. Before, pictures were seen from the outside: now they are seen from the inside"), explore Abstractionism, then abruptly disappear from Paris in August...
...until 1955, while Aub was on a lecture tour in Mexico, did he "meet" J.T.C. By then, the painter, as Aub tells it, was a wizened, forgotten genius, the "missing link" of modern art, living like a peasant and "crossbreeding" with Indian maidens. Shunting aside his own work, Aub became so caught up with his invention that he devotedly contributed his talents to "resurrecting the reputation of Campalans." He composed a scholarly biography, right down to footnotes that have footnotes. For pictures of his subject's peasant parents, Aub used a pair of appropriate Spanish postcards. To document J.T.C...
...Roman grocer's widow (Loren), sick of the war and scared of the bombing, packs her bags and takes her teen-aged daughter (Eleonora Brown) back to the mountain hut where she was born. There they work the stony fields and chatter away the evenings with the peasant women...