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...DRIFTER. Inventive, impressionistic camera work and a memorable score tell a story as thin and fragile as a sea shell about a vagabond hitchhiker...
...DRIFTER. Inventive, impressionistic camera work and a memorable score tell a story as thin and fragile as a seashell about a vagabond hitchhiker...
...Drifter is a thumb-time hitchhiker and full-time vagabond. Known only as Alan, he sleeps on strange streets and familiar beds, wandering from woman to woman, ending all his relationships with an easygoing "Ciao, baby." Except for that, he has little to say, and less to laugh about. His idea of humor is to retell the ancient jape of the man who asked his mistress, "Do you smoke after?", and received the answer, "I don't know. I'll look next time." Alan, whose ordinariness is well portrayed by Off-Broadway Veteran John Tracy, meanders from Manhattan...
...asking everyone from mayors to illiterate peasants about the names given to places. Dressed like an ordinary Spaniard, Corominas reads gravestones, checks into town and church records, and figures out Catalonian history from what he learns. To the peasants, he has come to be known as the nosy vagabond who comes around every summer...
Sinister Green Thumb. At 45, Amália has been the queen of fado for more than 20 years. But she is a vagabond queen, rationing her performances at home to tour the world. In Lisbon, variety-show comics crack that Portugal has everything that the rest of the world has-except Amália. "The Portuguese are jealous lovers," says Amália. "They say that I drink, that I am a spy, that I work for the secret police, that I sing only for ministers." Actually, her most sinister possession is a green thumb, with which she tends...