Word: venacular
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...will give it three stars in the New Republic and slip in a little treatise on censorship. The film is craftily analyzed for corniness; (Hollywood has invariably done it before; these Russians, of course, have had very little art since Stalin's time), foreigness (Moscow's architecture, clothing and venacular are checked for honest-to-God Communist values. Beware the film that dares show too Western, or not Western enough, a facade), and treachery (namely propaganda. Movie reviewers are sharp on the lookout for subtle messages from the Kremlin--whether they be Lenninist or dissident...
...impossible to tell what appealed to the judges at the Cannes Film Festival and prompted them to award the movie the Jury Prize. To foreign eyes, it may seem an accurate presentation of the American venacular which fascinates many French. It is particularly American insofar as it is a bogus excursion into social truth. Horovitz, who has given the director only the tiniest characterizations to build the movie on. As long as large film companies produce and sell movies such as this masquerading as honesty or confrontation, many opinions will remain romanticized, muddled, and as annoyingly cute as this film...
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