Word: sorrowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD SQUARE CINEMA. The Sorrow and the Pity...
...Sorrow and the pity. The latest of a string of fine films booked into the Harvard Brattle chain. An already legendary 1970 documentary by Marcel Ophulus (son of Max) it examines life in WW 11'S occupied France with a Collection of interview with national leaders, spies and various inhabitants Of the industrial city of Clermont-Ferrand. The historical view the film Presents may be fragmentary, even misleading; but the human range covered is Powerfully complete. We not only hear heroic, week, tragic actions explained, but get some inkling of what these actions meant to the rest of the lives...
...story revolves around the family, the drabness of their bourgeois lives, their struggles to make a respectable living, whether as doctor, hairdresser, or clerk. But it is essentially a love story. It celebrates the ever-deepening love of two old people, who have shared sorrow and happiness, and now resign themselves to old age and death, in a manner so dignified that it bespeaks a stoic philosophy...
...tragi-comical scene, when he gets together with two old cronies and the ancient threesome proceeds to get quietly plastered. Even then, they cannot escape the disillusionment of the present. They spend their time together not thriving on old memories, but discussing the sad state of their children, the sorrow of facing the reality that their offspring are failures, that they lack "the spirit young people used to have...a son today would kill his parents without a thought...
...Twenty rooms! I can imagine what it must cost to heat them." So realistic a thought has never occurred to the narrator, who lives in an insulated world of private emotional speculation. When his classmates finally challenge him in a classic episode of adolescent testing, he finds to his sorrow that he cannot generate enough passion either to stand his ground or strike back...