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WHAT LUST? WHAT LIFE? NOT FOR MAUrice Pialat the gorgeously gaudy tones in which Hollywood paints the fine artist. The French writer-director's VAN GOGH is a portrait -- almost a still life -- of a somber fellow who is too busy creating masterpieces in the final months of his life to have time for melodramatic effects like lopping off his ear. In such films as Loulou and A Nos Amours, Pialat has sullenly railed against the strictures of French bourgeois life. In Van Gogh, he has found a kindred spirit; for both, artistic compromise is a crime against humanity. Jacques...
After an initial taste of bestsellerdom, Cooper's career wore itself out in feuds and lawsuits. But his vision, so bright in its highlights, so somber in its shadows, is not the product of mid-life crises. He had it all along...
...Clayton wonders why all this freedom left him and everyone close to him so anxious, addled and unhappy: "The present is Paradise, yet our brain forbids our living in it long." Beneath the comic excessiveness of his meditations can be glimpsed some somber spiritual shadows: "Everything was out of the closet, every tabu broken, and still God kept His back turned, refusing to set limits...
Departing momentarily from the somber mood of the opening scene, the second section shows the dancers frolicking about the stage in white nightgown-like play suits with large red rubber balls. Although the music in this segment remains light-hearted and upbeat, the dancers' motions slow considerably: they drop to the floor, gently manipulating the balls over their bodies. This playful scene seems like an appropriate place for the women to display some of their acrobatic prowess, the Graney reverts to the earlier solemnity and deprives the audience of the energetic interlude it needs...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. Boston area Premier of Herzog's Echoes from a Somber Empire at 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5. Boston area premier of the European cut of Brazil at 9:30 on Thursday, Nov. 5 Boston area premier of Swoon at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. from Friday, Nov. 6 until Thursday...