Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CENTRAL CINEMA II. Sorrow and the Pity. 7:30, Wknd...
Part singer, part entertainer, part actor, the successful pop crooner spends the beginning of his career creating his own role and the remainder interpreting it. His songs are mini-dramas about love and sorrow, good times and bad, and if he is good enough, he can convince his audience that he has experienced them all. The great crooners-from Bing Crosby to Dick Haymes to Frank Sinatra-have usually required wide exposure in cinema or TV to get their total message across. Tony Bennett, today's outstanding exemplar of the line, has been very happy to remain...
...Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls' documentary cross-section of Clermont Ferrand residents who lived through Occupied France, is, in the final analysis, a noble failure. It brings us up close to varying degrees of complicity and guilt and some causes for it, but the sheer bulk of its interviews and newsreel clips not only occasionally deadens, but gives the audience a misconceived faith in the completeness of Ophuls' very selective vision. Documentary talents like Ophuls' are hard to find, however, and they're needed desperately to slake a thirst for social commentary rarely touched by fiction filmmakers...
...Sorrow and the Pity...
...SORROW AND THE PITY and A SENSE OF LOSS. Dealing respectively with the Resistance in France and contemporary Northern Ireland, these two films by Marcel Ophuls make up a uniquely personal and compassionate contribution to the cinema as essay...