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...soldiers dazzle everyone. Their uniforms, their weapons, their language, their music and their CocaCola and cigarettes impress the villagers. One particular soldier, the handsome Walt Cook (Andrew Kelley), catches Jeroen's attention. Walt becomes Jeroen's friend, and in a striking scene, teaches Jeroen how to dance to jitterbug and the jive...
...scene serves as the emblem for the movie. As Walt lifts and tosses Jeroen in the air, it is apparent that Walt signifies liberation in more ways than one for Jeroen. As their relationship matures, Walt provides Jeroen with his first sexual experience. The film-makers handle sensitive material with great dexterity and honesty, expertly portraying the problems of communication. Not only do Walt and Jeroen not speak the same language, they don't even have the language to express what they are. Walt speaks of being "different," and says to Jeroen that when he saw him, he knew that...
...Jeroen Boman is a difficult role to bring off, but Smit succeeds spectacularly. He reminds one of Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver." Trained as a classical ballet dancer, this is Andrew Kelley's debut as an actor, and it shows. However, this works to the film's advantage, since Walt is really a symbol, magnified and perfected by Jeroen's memory. Feark Smink does a marvelous turn as Jeroen's foster father...
...contrast, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway takes place in hot, muggy Miami. The old gentlemen here are Richard Harris as Frank, a sometime seafarer who once brawled with Papa, and Robert Duvall as Walt, a fastidious Cuban barber, now retired. Harris has fun overacting, Duvall has fun underacting, but nobody has any fun with the opposite sex. Frank has a snappish relationship with his landlady, played by Shirley MacLaine, and is too raffish for Piper Laurie, who is excellent as a dignified lady he meets at senior-citizen matinees. Meanwhile Walt moons over a young waitress (Sandra Bullock). Also written...
...wrote Miracle of the Rose and The Thief's Journal was no sunny gay poet like Walt Whitman. When he celebrated himself, it was a tangle of paradoxes he pointed to. His chief delight was his own abjection. His notion of Utopia was a cellblock of masters and servants, preferably locked in a bear hug. He left little record of how his novels, written mostly in prison, developed. Though White doesn't penetrate all Genet's mysteries -- such as how a foster child who spent much of his adolescence in a reformatory became one of the supreme stylists in French...