Word: ruefulnesses
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...Rueful Humor. There is something piquant and warmingly cynical in the spectacle of civilized man rejecting truth, and one of the best things about this production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo is that it is full of rueful, at times raucous, humor. Joseph Losey (Accident, The Go-Between) staged the American premiere of the play 27 years ago, and for this film adaptation he has pruned some of Brecht's more arid ideological asides without substantially damaging the original text. Somewhat less comfortably, Losey flirts with Brecht's best-known theatrical devices: he uses a chorus...
...important secrets.'' Certainly the secrets in this poet's heart were well known by the time he died two falls ago. Auden's evolution from anger to acceptance, from wrathful condemnation of prewar society ("that confabulation of weasels at the next table") to rueful contemplation of self, was one of the best articulated literary odysseys ever taken...
That'll Be the Day has mostly the music in common with any of these. It is an intelligent, rueful attempt to get at the roots of pop culture by dramatizing the shaky beginnings of one musician's career. Director Claude Whatham and Writer Ray Connolly also succeed nicely at something that has hardly ever been tried: to say and to show just how rock gave a voice to a generation...
...developed that negative anyway, and it proved another picture entirely. Rhoda turned out to be a close relative of Tevye, a fiddler on the rueful whose face could shine with puzzlement as well as wisdom while she searched for career, meaning, laughs, irony and that sine qua non of the not-quite-liberated Msfit, a husband...
...ragged but forceful, is said to be based on a true story. It sometimes seems much too pat in its converging ironies, but it is a credit to Baer and the deft action directing of Richard Compton that County Line at least assumes, in its strongest passages, the rueful sting of fact...