Word: spider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CENTRAL II. Spider's Stratagem 6:15, 10, Before the Revolution 8, wknd...
...heroine of the piece, you'll remember, is Charlotte A. Cavatica, the helpful spider who saw Wilbur the pig through some pretty rough times. She saved his life and also taught him to understand and accept death. It is a very important lesson, one I was particularly glad to see the movie people had not altered for the sake of a happy ending. Physically, however, my friends and I look different from Mr. Garth Williams' definitive illustrations in the book. We have been made cuter, which I suppose is nothing to complain about...
HARVARD SQUARE CINEMA. Spider's Stratagem 2:50, 6:25, 9:55. Before the Revolution...
Less political, more lyrical than his later work, less self-conscious, and more romantic, The Spider's Strategem is a film of a kind Bertolucci is unlikely to make again. Structured around Jorge Luis Borges's little story "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," it is a film of limited ambitions shot with remarkable sensitivity and control. Its limit is a lack which might not be noticed except in comparison with the political and psychological ponderings of Bertolucci's other films, a moral core which is absent because of the source chosen. Borges's stories are self-admitted...
...that the village is cut off from the rest of the world, the tracks leading out overgrown with grass. It enters into no real moral grapplings; even its politics are just subordinate to tricks in the plot. More didactic concerns are left to Bertolucci's other films. What The Spider's Strategem demonstrates above all is his stunning technical finesse...