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...simple country girl against a phalanx of church elders, the debate of passion vs. propriety, the close-ups of so many stern faces and one shining one--all this calls to mind The Passion of Joan of Arc, the 1928 silent masterpiece by another Dane, Carl Dreyer. Von Trier's film isn't in that class, but he gets points for wild ambition. Like Bess, the writer-director has undergone a conversion. His early pictures, Element of Crime and Zentropa, were wondrously busy examples of cinematic Euroflash; here he goes for sweeping visual sentiment. He wants to press...
Moreno is able to contort his face into every manageable form of laughter, each more convincing than the last. His visage reminds one of a young Jonathan Winters, as does his sense of comic timing. Von Gerbig is hilarious as his foil; her eyes move into every possible direction. She is as artless as he is artful...
Kelly's lawyer, Thomas Puccio, who successfully appealed the conviction of Claus von Bulow, has labored to convince the jury that the young woman was drunk and the sex consensual. Last week a sexologist said the girl's hysteria could have resulted from guilt and anxiety over her first sexual experience. Several witnesses were grilled about the size of her beer glass. And unless Kelly takes the stand in his own defense, which he has not yet decided to do, the jury may never learn that a second girl, this one 17 at the time, claims that Kelly raped...
...distant age of sensitive nineteenth-century guys, Franz Schubert joined the bandwagon of paesan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and fellow German Romantics, over-analyzing every passing emotion and fluttering of the heart. Here in the twenty-song cycle of Die Schone Mullerin (The Fair Maiden of the Mill), Schubert indulges his delicate sensibilities with harmonically textured compositions set to the often silly poetry of Wilhelm Muller. Schubert wrote more than 600 of these "lieder" (songs), elevating it to a major musical art form...
...Orleans because his selfish siblings refuse to help him take care of their ailing mother. Scott (Jason Chaffin), the older brother, is a smug, cold yuppie; Jane (Sarah Yellen), the sister, is a cruel harpy masquerading as a p.c. environmentalist. Poor old Mom, played by the usually effervescent Shar von Boskirk, has nothing to do but sit center-stage for the duration of the play, gurgling and babbling unconvincingly. Those who saw her in last year's West Side Story might have yearned for a chorus of America, but in vain; at least one can say that she pitches...