Word: surreality
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...Lovers of Teruel. One of those ballet movies, but this time it's for surreal, and Ludmila Tcherina, though she wobbles on her toes, gives the picture body...
...Lovers of Teruel. One of those ballet movies, but this time it's for surreal, and Ludmila Tcherina, though she wobbles on her toes, gives the picture body...
...Lovers of Teruel. One of those ballet movies, but this time it's for surreal, and Ludmilla Tcherina, though she wobbles on her toes, gives the picture body...
Viridiana (Kingsley International). In the first reel of the first important film directed by Spain's Luis Bunuel, something surreal called Un Chien Andalou (1929), the camera watches closely as Bunuel himself opens a straight razor and with surgical precision slits a woman's eyeball. From that frame forward, Moviemaker Bunuel left no doubt in anybody's mind that he intends to open people's eyes. In his masterpiece, Los Olmdados (1950), he opened people's eyes to the horrors of poverty in the Mexican slums. In Viridiana, a strange but powerful film that contains...
...from its chief virtue: it fashions hypnotic images of disorder to convey the sense of a disordered world. But the essence of dramatic art, as of all art, is to impose order on chaos. Flawed, shapeless, often inarticulate, the theater of the absurd nonetheless does generate excitement. In its surreal, evocative way, it tries to grapple with the way things are now, with the current condition of man, the creature of the Fall and the fallout...