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Negatives--A ponderous and pretentious excursion into illusion-reality land, starring three ugly people, one of whom was much better in "Marat-Sade" and featuring a soundtrack consisting almost entirely of ominous clicking, gratuitous screaming, and much too much crumpling of polyethelyne. This way madness lies. At the CHARLES CINEMA, 195 Cambridge...
...even though his movies are full of beautiful images, their ideas tend to ride on the soundtrack. Truffaut's Jules and Jim was adapted from a novel, yet its moments of revelation (the morning scenes at the beach-house, for instance) are visual. When Bergman tries to escape the literary--in The Silence, with almost no dialogue--the result is a crude, sometimes ludicrous reliance on symbols...
Negatives--A ponderous and pretentious excursion into illusion-reality land, starring three ugly people, one of whom was much better in "Marat-Sade" and featuring a soundtrack consisting almost entirely of ominous clicking, gratuitous' screaming, and much too much crumpling of polyethelyne. This way madness lies. At the CHARLES CINEMA, 195 Cambridge...
...When the Living Gets Better features a sound track which is positively creative, and need not apologize for being only quasi-synchronized. Songs blip for an ugly instant as Sally primps. Two songs run on top of each other in distinct gibberish as she smiles at her date. The soundtrack is used by Waletzky to tell us what the pictures alone only suggest. Near the end, sound pops into sync with the click of a light-switch, grabbing our attention for the brief, affirmative finale...
...setting is a film in itself. Shot in grainy-greenish color, to a soundtrack of dirgeful medieval music, the Icelandic countryside (sheets of solid lava, mist rising from craggy fields) seems like another planet. Maybe it is--but then the whole picture harks back to an idea of man light-years away from...