Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bourgeois ideal has really been liquidated behind the Iron Curtain, the Polish drama Knife in the Water does little to prove it. In telling the tale of a Warsaw couple's sailboat holiday, writer-director Roman Polanski depicts a Communist life complete with portable radios and Prince Albert tobacco. More surprisingly, the story makes no effort to grapple with the ideological issues its materialism raises. The striking affluence of the characters is ignored and they are examined without regard to the society that surrounds them...
Polanski is a graduate of Poland's state run school of cinema, yet the tale lacks any propogandistic overtones and could be set on a lake anywhere. Ideologically, it owes a great deal more to Freud than to Marx for the drama is one of personalities and not of social systems...
...FIANCES. Italy's Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets) brings total mastery of his art to this wispy tale of a long-engaged couple who must lose each other to rediscover their love...
...craggy-faced despair and large-voiced grief, Jason Robards Jr. roams the bare multileveled arena stage of the center's temporary Greenwich Village home to narrate and act out the Miller's tale in a brilliant, grueling, three-hour performance. In the beginning, there was Mom. She is an angry, unfulfilled woman whose passport to college was revoked by a family-arranged marriage with a shipping merchant whom she regards as her inferior and lashes with verbal contempt. Infused with guilt by the warring parents and wanting to make up to Mom for her frustration and unhappiness...
...STREETS OF NEW YORK are drenched in crocodile tears in this gay musical spoof of Dion Boucicault's bustling and be-bustled 19th century tale of a dastard of a banker...