Word: sanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-day conference of Arab Premiers in Cairo last week came 22 secret resolutions. Since intrigue is as commonplace as sand in the Middle East, everyone was soon publicly discussing the clandestine clauses...
Like Sisyphus, doomed to his meaningless life of pushing the boulder up the mountain, The Woman and her man, must shovel each night knowing that the constant sand slides make it a never-ending task, and they finally emerge absurd heroes in their own way. As Sisyphus must be imagined happy, so too are man and woman revealed as not digging sand to live but living to dig sand...
...philosophic propositions are the weakest part of a suspenseful and moving script. Of course it's redundant for the man to say "It's useless," or "Even a monkey could be trained to do this" when he's digging in a hole as dismal as that one; but after sand, struggle and serendipity, when life gets reduced to ciggs, sake, and sex, the sensations are powerfully communicated to the audience: you taste that drag, you smell that swig, you ... like the feelies in Brave New World...
Certainly the images are among the most eloquent on film. Extreme close-ups of the skin and minute sections of the body dehumanize the characters, make them merge with the surrounding sand, reveal their mood and activity. The texture of their skins becomes a history of the man and woman's trials with the elements...
...been shorter, the inexorably regulated pace successfully suggests that time and routine, resignation and insight, are more crucial than crises of escape or rape. When the man finally is presented with a chance for freedom, he walks to the sea he longed to view, but returns willingly to the sand pit. "There's no need to run away yet," he muses...