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...deserves to. For director Gillian Armstrong and writer Robin Swicord have fashioned an entrancing film from this distinctly unfashionable classic. They do not so much dramatize the passage of the four March sisters from girlhood to womanhood as let it unfold. Over the years the sisters must cope with a father's absence (when he's not off fighting the Civil War, he's lost in philosophical musings), a mother's bustling idealism, romances appropriate and inappropriate, the constant threat of poverty and illness. Eventually Jo (the luminous Winona Ryder) embraces art and an older man (Gabriel Byrne); Meg (Trini...
...with the Clintons. "I've spent time with ((them)) in their private quarters," he told a South Dakota newspaper last December. "That relationship is a very thrilling part of my life in Washington, ((and)) I believe it's going to get even stronger and more personal as the years unfold...
...word, the cinematography is different--not innovative--but different. Most of the scenes are unusually dark. The drama seems to unfold in an atmosphere of a funeral, the event that started the film. This worked well in the scenes in the new office building, producing a surreal, avant-garde effect. The acting, mise en scene, and the characters of "The Secret Rapture" seemed to lend themselves better to theater than to film. This is probably because Mr. Davies' prior experience was with the stage...
...crashed into the planet Jupiter. International relief workers said the same thing, only they were referring to the tide of refugees streaming out of Rwanda and into overnight cities of misery, disease and death. Certainly the millions of people who watched these two cataclysms unfold through news photographs and televised images had never seen anything like them either...
...literally shivers with paranoia for much of the play, gives us a convincing portrayal of Leopold's alcoholic helpnessness and consuming self-alienation in face of the incessant fear of the unknown "they" who will carry him off to "there." Indeed, while the seven scenes of the drama all unfold in Leopold's living room, and he is the focal point of nearly all the dialogue, Lithgow for the most part persuades us that he is, as his "friend" Bertram (David Gammons) says, the "passive object" of his own life...