Word: renoirs
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...theme with only a limited number of possible explanations. Alert mystery fans will probably come up with a solution about halfway through the film. Other members of the audience will be lulled into a pleasant state of mild befuddlement, induced by some snazzy film cutting, Claude Renoir's lush color photography and the extravagant scenery. The latter includes Miss Eggar, who is coming along nicely with her acting...
...blamed on its distributor, United Artists, who somehow saw fit to cut twenty minutes from. Truffaut's version for its American release. Still, a lot of the good is intact, and so are the film's intriguing references to Psycho, Shoot the Piano Player and the works of Jean Renoir, to whom Mississippi Mermaid is dedicated...
...given an auteur who's also a good director, he will manage to come up with as good an explication of his films as most critics; possibly, because of his fine eve for visuals, a better one. He does champion such out-of-current mood directors as Peckinpah and Renoir; he is generally concerned with instituting fashion according to his own "impassioned" integrity rather than merely following the fashionable (though his recent 2001 recantation was curious indeed). With such developments as his labeling of Fellini as the "Busby Berkeley of metaphysics," and a latent inclination towards admirable historical research...
...images, on the political repression of signs and symbols with vertical, class implications for the benefit of pure representation, appropriation, fetishism of objects. Kjell learns about the pleasures of pure aesthetics from the liberal, cultured wife of the factory owner. The joyous pronunciation of "Pierre Auguste Renoir" becomes a sign for irresponsible privilege and political obliviousness in a sequence intercut with familiar images of Kjell's mother doing washing for the rich. Widerbeg demonstrates the duplicity of his own horizontal aestheticism in a context of social inequalities a hierarchy of wealth and power. The opening shots of the film reveal...
...Adalen 31 leaves a question: how to deal with the linear and vertical drama of history when men are so ultimately diffused, like the light in a Renoir, in sensibility and vocabulary, in pure material, in space and time. Nobody has any conception of what's happening during the massacre sequence, product of missed messages, delayed comprehensions. "The bastards are using real bullets," someone shouts, but the band keeps playing, the people keep marching, and afterwards everyone is sorry. With their anti-climatic attempts to assimilate still going on, the general strike is declared in far away Stockholm...