Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRATTLE: Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring continues for another week. The Motion Picture Academy called it the best foreign film of 1960. Our man found it "a brilliant failure." Evenings...
...town of Dover-red brick St. Philomena's, which Pastor Joseph J. Boyle and the members of his three-year-old parish had just completed. Suddenly a news item riveted Cardinal Cushing's attention: the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites had stricken St. Philomena, "the virgin martyr," from the roster of saints. For the cardinal, who had distributed 800 statuettes of St. Philomena to Dover's Catholics, it was an unexpected blow...
...remains of what was assumed to have been blood, together with certain symbols (two anchors, three arrows, a palm and a flower or torch), was interpreted by archaeologists as proof that the remains were those of a martyr. Her tender age led to the assumption that she was a virgin...
From the earliest work, Florentine Bernardo Daddi's 14th-century twin-panel altarpiece of Virgin and Child and The Last Judgment, to the latest, a 1948 still life by Matisse, there is hardly a masterwork that reflects turbulent emotions Enthusiasm there is, such as in Degas' pastel Singer with a Glove, but most portrait subjects are caught in repose: Manet's pipe-puffing Smoker, Tintoretto's velvet-clad, regal Venetian Senator, Joos van Clève's Mater Dolorosa...
...that it does not notice these defects. The virtue is that the viewer can read what he likes into the screenplay, and tends to blame obscurity on his own imperception; but the price is that technique becomes more important than either structure or meaning. At its best in the Virgin Spring, the technique is dazzling, and the already quiet audience becomes deathly silent when the householder drives his knife into a table and waits for the murders to wake. But this fascination holds the viewer rather than drawing his mind and sympathies into the film's message...