Word: sensuous
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Jeremy Leven's "Don Juan de Marco" is a dishearteningly monochromatic interpretation of the world's most notorious lover. Johnny Depp, with his penchant for eccentric roles, seems to be an inspired choice to play the mysterious, sensuous young man who appears in the late twentieth century to recount intimate memories of his prolific love life. But as the picture-perfect sunsets flash across the screen, the lovely ladies disrobe, the orchestra hums and the saccharine sentiments fly, it becomes apparent that his Don Juan is just another primetime soap opera rogue...
...somewhat limited, artist. It is really the black-and-white works that bear Kline's claim to importance; he was mainly an artist of impact, and when that kind of sensibility uses color, it tends to over- or underuse it, in either case stressing its declarative rather than its sensuous nature. But in monochrome he could really cook...
...finished composition, and they don't bother with seducing the eye. They are pragmatic expressions of the desire to understand a pose, a set of figures, or a structure of tonal relationships, bluntly set down in strokes of the pen and unfussed dabs of ink wash. For the sensuous side of Poussin one must consult the paintings, in all their majesty of color: the ultramarine blues, vermilions, gold-yellows, unfurled against the softer tones of nature...
...three women, it is not just the food that appeals; it is the shared meal, the meaningful conversation, the good wine. Perhaps at times they sound a bit precious or snobbish, these women with their negligees and aperitifs, but Fisher, Child, and Waters have all promoted everyday eating as sensuous and delightful, as a necessary celebration...
...coating of Lettermanesque irony. They see The Graduate from the viewpoint of the spurned, stuffy groom. They believe that being a salesman is "not just a job but a culture." They read the Bible while dancing alone to Glenn Miller's PEnnsylvania 6-5000. And when they encounter sensuous senoritas who declare, "I don't go to bed with just anyone anymore -- I have to be attracted to him sexually," these paragons of starched Waspness engage in prime Whit Stillman cross talk...