Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought of a demagogic, anti-intellectual president sounds frightening, all right, but it wouldn't be anything new--just think of California's last contribution to the White House: adopted son Richard Nixon...
...Festival. A portrait-type shot encompasses the entire family of a Sardinian peasant, Efisio Ledda (Omero Antonutti), seated in the waiting room of a local bank. Compelled to sell his recently inherited farmland in the face of low olive prices and a disastrous winter, the paterfamilias informs his two sons and two daughters of the plans he has drawn up for each of them--marriage, working for the family, and the like--while he awaits his appointment with a bank official. Efisio Ledda singles out his oldest son for special treatment, informing the 20-year-old Gavino (Saverio Marconi) that...
...Efisio Ledda, a self-conscious Sardinian rebuke to the Tolstoyan idealization of the muzhik. And it is the very bluntness of the portrayal of the patriarch's tyranny that reveals the directors' background in documentaries. The father's capacity for sadistic fury knows no bounds in disciplining his eldest son: Efisio is a petty and mean-hearted fellow, and the Tavianis never let us forget...
...knowledge and understanding, despite some very formidable obstacles. The opening scene loses no time in explaining why the cards will be stacked against Gavino for the better part of his life. Storming into Gavino's grammar school classroom, shepherd's staff in hand, Efisio demands custody of his son. He tells Gavino's awestruck teacher that the boy is more urgently needed in the fields with the family flock than behind a desk with a book, summing up his view of education by declaring, "There's no such thing as compulsory education; only poverty is compulsory." Hardly the conventional childhood...
...climbing trip to Montana, and an accident that left him in the hospital for six months, a desperate interlude during which his mother died. But with last fall's One Night Stands and now The New South Hank Jr. is back, capturing what it is to be Hank Williams' son and what it's like to be a proud Sunbelter in the Age of Jimmy Carter better than anyone else...