Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams. A rich old clownish woman rages desperately against the good night of death, until a Christ-figure comforts her tormented soul. Hermione Baddeley plays the dying woman with blinding, blistering brilliance...
Eclipse. The trouble with modern man, says Michelangelo Antonioni in most of his movies (L'Avventura, La Notte), is that he has gained the whole world and lost his own soul; the trouble with this picture is that Antonioni in his obsessive pessimism ignores an important fact of human life: a deep shadow can be cast only by a strong light...
...screen, Cantinflas is Latin America's perpetual Poor Soul, who stumbles from woe to woe in a series of pratfalls. As Phileas Fogg's spirited gentleman's gentleman, he blundered merrily Around the World in 80 Days. Mario Moreno, as Cantinflas is known in private life, bears little resemblance to the helpless clown with the split mustache. He is one of the richest men in Mexico, with an income of something like $350,000 a year, lives like a potentate in five homes attended by a staff of 18 servants. He flies...
...inimitable Bergman manner-as windows not so much seen as seen through, as ways of entering a reality that lies within them and beyond them. In Mai Zetterling, for instance, Bergman sees warm flesh and hot blood, but he also sees through body into being, into the luminous soul of a woman in love...
...strange contest ensues, in which she barters for his body and he gambles to save her soul. On the surface, Milk Train is Flora's story and incontestably Hermione Baddeley's vehicle. She can put the chill of mortality into a sibilant whisper, all vanity into a grandiose Churchillian lisp, all lechery into a creamy smirk. As she coughs, groans and rages about the stage, she is larger than death...