Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WEST EUROPEAN STUDIES SEMINAR on post-war Scandinavian film presents Torment, written by Ingmar Bergman (his first film), directed by Alf Sjeberg. Thurs., WINTHROP HOUSE DINING HALL, 8 p.m., and Fri., LENMAN HALL...
There is not a great deal that Tuesday Weld can do with any of this. She is an actress of a curious and unique talent, especially adept at expressing elfin, vaguely threatening sexuality. Maria, obsessive and tormented, eludes her. Less introverted than preoccupied, Tuesday seems as lost as Maria herself, although the only good moment in the film is hers. "See the pyramids all wet with rain / Cross the ocean in a silver plane" Maria croons, stoned crazy in an old 16-mm. verité documentary of Carter's, and in those few seconds Weld touches some of Maria...
...continued to tell us of people who walk by him without interest and of some who even torment him. These are the beasts who can face human inquisitiveness only with indifference or hostility. The questioning of others interferes with their own beastliness...
...first time since Dien Bien Phu, the armies of North Vietnam have moved en masse against a Western power intent on ruling in their country. The current offensive in Vietnam is not politically senseless, nor is it an exercise in random brutality; it is firmly rooted in the political torment and human anguish that have been created by American policy. And we can only hope that the Americans and their South Vietnamese mercenaries will suffer the same fate as did the French...
...Greenwood," which expands on a biblical verse, is hauntingly beautiful and expresses the torment Peter seems honestly to feel when faced with a decade's unsuccessful efforts to bring peace...