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...asked an organization called Boston of the World to help with the benefit by handling publicity and ticket sales, said Kim J.S. Scola '87, president...
Maria Braun), and in the past few years has worked with Jean-Luc Godard (Passion), Ettore Scola (La Nuit de Varennes) and Marco Ferreri (The Story ofPiera). By now Schygulla has perfected the bold gesture deftly applied. The grocery-door shutters snap down, or a window shade snaps up, and a thrill sizzles through her like lightning. In the interrogation room she gets a look at her cuckolded husband and quickly puts her fingers to her eyes, gouging out his presence. Her mouth arcs, her tongue flicks, her eyes blaze, her face is illuminated by the reckless glow...
...case of Le Bal, Italian director Ettore Scola's latest film, skepticism is unfortunately somewhat justified. For though the film is, in many respects, both an ingenious work of art and a profoundly telling social commentary, it is not without flaws--flaws which intermittently cause the audience to question whether the sum of the parts is ultimately worth the whole...
...abstract, Le Bal has the potential to be a successful film. Instead of recounting history through the conventional means of one family or a set of individuals, Scola charts the cultural transformations of France by observing attitudinal changes in the patrons of a ballroom from 1936 to 1983. The film opens with a random group of men and women entering the ballroom, and through an innovative and rather stylized flashback technique, comes full circle at the film's conclusion...
...Director Scola deserves credit for clearly differentiating each decade. From the selection of songs which range in nationality to the careful costuming and attention to detail, the film creates a sense of authenticity that captures the flavor of the era. More importantly, though the actors remain nameless throughout the film, they have little difficulty establishing and altering identities as time progresses. And while the lack of dialogue unavoidably causes the cast to overact, in virtually every case the actors have no trouble striking the proper balance between character and caricature...