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...only surprise that evening was supper-freshly killed gazelle, plus a vintage Bordeaux and chilled Mercier 1962 brut. The wines had been air-dropped by helicopter. Garros was rather embarrassed. "To be effective," he says, a legionnaire "must be cold, hungry and miserable. Luxury kills faster than bullets...
...scene was a supper party celebrating the opening of Maria Callas' first film, Medea. And who should be prominently in the foreground? None other than Old Boyfriend Aristotle Onassis. Sans Jackie, of course. The former famous twosome even got together during Christmas holidays while Jackie was in England with her children. Won't Mrs. O. mind? "Jackie is tough," says Ari. Just how tough-and in which way -remains to be seen...
...manner of Communion reflects the new theology as well. The Host-traditionally, in the U.S., a small white paper-thin wafer-is now supposed to be more breadlike, so that it can be broken and shared by priests and people in a more vivid re-enactment of the Last Supper. The wine may be drunk directly from the chalice, sipped from a spoon, taken by "induction" (dipping the bread in wine), or even sipped through silver straws...
Essentially, however, M.A.S.H. is not an actor's movie. Its furious humor arises from the collaboration of Lardner and Airman, who swing the scenario like a baseball bat. Not infrequently, they shatter the wrong objectives; a parody of the Last Supper, for example, is utterly without wit or point. But most of the time the film is a moon reflecting the sun of battle. War assaults taste, language, sense itself. So do the soldiers who fight it. So do the doctors who aid the soldiers. So does M.A.S.H., animated with a dangerously robust sick humor and a highly civilized...
Adalen '31 is most deeply about the ineffable, invaluable quality of a single moment in the life of man, when a casual encounter or a supper at twilight is enclosed and enriched by the imminence of violent tragedy. Such scenes are framed in the shimmering light of a Swedish summer and seem idyllic, almost unworldly; but Widerberg handles the chaotic confrontation scene between workers and army troopers with a precise sense of brutality that proves that he is not entirely a romantic. The very gentleness and simplicity of much of the visual imagery-the names of Renoir and Monet...