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...phrase. She said that was everybody's reaction to the film so far, nobody zealously praising its merit or damning it straight to video release. The reason for the lukewarm reaction is that The Virgin Suicides has a character crisis. Lacking a central protagonist, the film keeps the viewer detached . There is no character that the audience can latch on to or place its empathy with. There are the five Lisbon sisters, their two parents, the numerous neighborhood admirers, the unidentified narrator, Trip Fontaine, etc. The audience has trouble keeping count of all these faces and names, and no character...
...original narrators return in the final third of the movie, leaving the audience to believe that the boys had no contact with the sisters in the interim. Whereas a novel can be successful through episodic narrative, a film loosely applying this technique suffers, and at the expense of the viewer...
...School at the University of Hartford in the late '70s, Lemieux's career has involved found objects. Her use of bricks is just the latest in a stretch of utensils like nails, helmets, newspapers and book jackets. Mixed media provides Lemieux's work with a material dynamic, directing the viewer's imagination to a remembered world of objects. Lemieux's juxtapositions of these objects offer more. Effects of this doubled consciousness produce an art that draws on memory. The Matter of History, 1994, exhibited pieces based on Holocaust and World War I imagery. The Appearance of Sound, 1989, presented works...
...disadvantage in working now with mixed media would have to be how receptive people are in this country. Europe has a strong history of conceptual art. Here, people often want you to be one thing and not ten other things. Acceptance is an issue, meaning how the critic or viewer affects the critical reception. It's also difficult on pragmatic levels: in my studio, working with the materials, I have to start from level zero...
...With little in the way of character development, East-West ultimately relies on plot to sustain the viewer's interest. Rather than engaging us, East-West compels us to ask: Will Sasha make the team? Will Marie escape? There is little ambiguity and no humor to overcome the predictable and increasingly tiresome turns of plot...