Word: surrealizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Surrealism in this film is no gratuitous exercise, but a way of probing into the distoritions of mind wrought in a small boy's head by an uncontrollable world of misery. Bunuel has mellowed since he made this film: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a clever comedy he made a year and a half ago, uses the same surreal imagery, but in a less direct way. That film was popular, witty, adroit; Los Olvidados is driving, frightening--caustic and political. People who thought The Discreet Charm was amusing, but who couldn't quite see where Bunuel was going, should...
...delicately mimicking the ripple of fabric stripes in a breeze, inevitably suggests Jasper Johns' flag paintings, but that is only an accident. Likewise, a deliciously anthropomorphic wool winder (see cut), with a human head and the hub of a decorated worm gear for its belly button, predicts the surreal wooden constructions of H.C. Westermann. And then there are the quilts. The best products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal devices and color systems of Op art and color-field painting. Seen with an unprejudiced eye, the snap and sparkle...
...bucks a shot and got blown up by bicycles laden with explosives; NLF agents lived next door to petty government officials. Hundreds of crippled war veterans angrily confronted the state with demands for housing and health care, descending on the presidential palace, in wheelchairs and on crutches, like some surreal army. It was all too much for Americans to think about...
Many of the groupings are formed by surreal figures with whitewashed, featureless faces or glossy, froglike eyes...
...laws, are enough to drive Hoffman into the arms of another woman (Carla Gravina). Hoffman's life thus becomes a long, wearing series of legal combats with his estranged wife, who hauls him before the bar on a variety of charges, most of them torturous in their surreal logic...