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...more baritonal, and he thus is open to experimentation with new roles and even with new careers. Later this month, for example, Domingo makes his Met debut as a conductor, leading Puccini's La Bohème, and he is currently appearing as Don José in Francesco Rosi's film of Bizet's Carmen (see CINEMA...
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...
...intermission. Detroit Businessman Ed Connelly is a Le Français fan. He and his wife Pat popped into their eight-seat Cessna 421 a little over an hour ago and flew down to Wheeling just for dinner. They brought along Paul Mann, a wine importer, and his wife Rosi. The first courses are just arriving. Ed has ordered oysters: half a dozen embedded in their shells over spinach leaves and lobster mousse. Each is covered with julienne leeks and a beurre blanc sauce. Ed slips the first oyster into his mouth. His eyes close. There is a weighty pause...
...tone Rosi struck before, in the notable Christ Stopped at Eboli two years ago, which also contrasted the timeless virtues of peasant life with the murderous meaninglessness of modern intellectual and ideological bustle. He was not then, and he is not now, soft-headed in his appreciation of the simple life. Nor is he ever less than humane and fair-minded in presenting the torments of the bedeviled worldly. Indeed, he strikes one as being among the world's most scrupulous directors, a man whose instinct for the play of light and the unobtrusively correct camera...
...Rosi's actors are superb, but a special word must be said for Vanel. You can read everything Rosi wants to say about the values of patient intelligence, unassuming craft in the seams of his ancient face. One could study him forever, and do worse than study Three Brothers more than once...