Word: surrealistes
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...censors previewed "Dreams That Money Can Buy" yesterday before its scheduled evening performances at the New Lecture Hall to make sure the movie was fit for local consumption. The officers watched the screen intently for ninety-three minutes but failed to find any over-realistic scenes in the surrealist flicker...
This is the sort of experience you have when seeing "Dreams That Money Can Buy." Probably no one could tell you precisely what the film is about--it makes no pretensions at hanging together all of a piece and giving any single, clear meaning. But the word "surrealist" shouldn't frighten you off. With no more than a New Yorker-level of knowledge of Freud, a little patience for modern music and art, and the least bit of initial curiosity, this quite amazing motion picture will soon sweep you up and carry you along in a swirl of color...
...Surrealist Heinz Troekes, 37, is now in Paris on a grant from the French government. His Blind City looks like a nightmare view of Berlin, and though it lacks the comparison evident in Hofer's Houses, it is equally haunting. When he finishes a painting, Troekes says, he is "always quite startled and in a new world. In that world everything is quite natural for me. If it's not natural, the picture goes into the wastebasket...
Burgeoning with a Breast. Dominguez graduated from the student-artist class the day he met Surrealist Andre Breton in 1935. Breton introduced him to the surrealist round table at the Cafe de la Place Blanche, where, in the course of fevered discussions with Picasso and Paul Eluard, he hit on some weird and wonderful notions. Dominguez rose to prominence in the group by such creations as a bas-relief of a horse inextricably tangled with a bicycle, and a "gramophone" with a forefinger in place of a needle and a female breast for a turntable...
Borrowing from his one-act play, Orpheus (1926) and his surrealist film, Blood of a Poet (1933), Jack-of-All-Arts Cocteau has written and directed a modern version of the legend in which Orpheus charms the gods into returning his dead wife, Eurydice, to life. As Cocteau has it, Orpheus (Jean Marais) is a celebrated poet and national hero who falls in love with a satellite of death in the shape of a beautiful princess (Maria Casares). The princess covets Orpheus, takes Eurydice (Maria Dea) before her time. Confused by his love for both women, the poet journeys...