Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Sporting Life. In the past five years the Angry Generation of British moviemakers has whacked off several vivid slices of working-class life (Room at the Top, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey). Sooner or later it was bound to cut off a hunk of baloney, and this...
Among Latin America's Roman Catholics, the cult of the saint plays a more vivid role in people's lives than the Mass itself. The feast days honoring patron saints often surpass Christmas in religious fervor, and shrines and grottoes, where miracle seekers pray to their saints, dot the landscape. The church often has to discourage believers in supposed miracles and newly "sainted" beings. Sometimes, as in Brazil last week, this eagerness to accept new visions takes a macabre turn...
Hand in the Trap. Argentine Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson takes a Bergmanesque approach in telling a story of passion and provincial puritanism. His caustic comments on the Argentine way of life, which makes prisoners of women, are both vivid and ironic...
Geographically, Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and Sweden's Ingmar Bergman are poles apart; esthetically, the two directors are quite close. Both record the contortions of provincial puritanism in a style of sensuous opulence. Torre Nilsson is less intense and less profound, but he has something vivid and ironic to say about a society in which women are fenced like cattle and cattle are allowed to run free...
...Shaped Room marks Leslie Caron's successful transition from gamin to grownup. Her love scenes with hawk-faced Tom Bell are vivid; her way of mumbling silently to herself in moments of despair evokes such heartbreak that viewers will want to hug her and say, there, there, everything will be all right. There is a taste of Honey and an aftertaste of Anger about The L-Shaped Room that give it an honorable place among British slice-of-life films...