Word: rosie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infants. Police claim that about 60 people worked for him, including doctors, nurses, baby- sitters, court officials, notaries and drivers. In addition, women he hired allegedly masqueraded as social workers to persuade poor women to give up their babies. Their reward: 1,000 cruzados ($72) for each infant procured. Rosi Jorje, 18, says she met a "social worker" last October when she was six months pregnant. Since the father of her baby, a sailor, had disappeared, she accepted the woman's help. In exchange for medical care, Jorje promised to give up her baby when it was born. "The social...
...while filmmakers have long since perfected the art of adapting plays and musicals to their medium, opera on film or videotape is in its infancy, the equivalent of shellac 78s in the age of digital CDs. Except for such movies as Franco Zeffirelli's La Traviata or Francesco Rosi's Bizet's Carmen, most videos are theatrical presentations rather than cinematic creations in their own right. Still, there is much to be said for having the best seat at the Vienna State Opera or Covent Garden right in your living room. A sampling of the current releases...
...Francesco Rosi's "Bizet's Carmen" wonderfully demonstrates, adaptation is not quite the word to use when discussing opera films. Unlike in movie versions of novels and even plays, where directors often take great liberty in editing and rearranging the material, Rosi remains remarkably faithful to the staged production...
Where before we had only sets, now Rosi gives us the dramatic Spanish countryside; instead of a skeletal chorus we have a carousing corps of dancing peasant women. The film adds to the opera's sensuality without detracting from its heart. Save for the Flower Song scene, Rosi carefully avoids relying on facial close-ups and gestures which--though a necessary cinemagraphic technique--would have been absent from a stage version. In Carmen, the music's the thing...
Shot on location in Spain by Italian Director Francesco Rosi and adapted by Rosi and Tonino Guerra, the film boasts some striking images: cigarette girls hike their skirts while suggestively rolling tobacco on their thighs, and smugglers carouse in taverns of dubious salubrity...