Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settled down and made this brilliant film. My Life is a tour de style almost as startling as Breathless but more subtly accomplished, more purely felt. It is also a lyric poem in which the camera assiduously adores a beautiful woman. It is finally the tragic allegory of a soul whose pilgrimage to grace goes spiraling ecstatically down the drain...
WHEREAS: Brevity is the soul of wit --Shakespeare...
...panoramic saga of this kind tends to break down into images, episodes and historic tableaux. Act I is devoted more to atmosphere scenting than soul shaking. However, Albert Finney achieves one powerful revelatory moment. He breaks from the company of his chanting fellow monks with his body arched in contortion, his mouth twisted and strangulated with epileptic sounds, the seeming bearer of some supernatural vision or message that he cannot articulate. After that, it is difficult to think of Luther except as possessed, obsessed, and intoxicated...
...didn't look like much-just a gangling, green-eyed, snaggle-toothed son of a Swedish parson. But as an artist he was something unprecedented in cinema: a metaphysical poet whose pictures are chapters in a continuing allegory of the progress of his own soul in its tortured and solitary search for the meaning of life, for the experience of God. In his early films (Illicit Interlude, Naked Night), Bergman struggles to free himself from the fascination of the mother, the incestuous longing for innocence, safety, death. In the dazzling comedies of his second period (A Lesson in Love...
...rhetorical queries to the Infinite. The collection's showpiece is a long fable called Snowman, Snowman. It concerns a snowman who thinks long, long thoughts while slowly melting in the front yard of a middle-class New Zealand family. These scraps suggest not a dark night of the soul but a sun-filled afternoon, with curtains blowing drowsily at the window, a stack of clean paper on the desk, a typewriter at hand, and nothing...