Word: wanderlied
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...forced to work to feed her two children, a ten-year-old boy named Hung and a baby girl, Xuan. Circumstances deteriorate; the village burns, and the family moves in with unsympathetic relatives. After a time, the wife dies of a sarcoma of the leg, and the two children wander through the city, waiting for their father to return. The remainder of the film follows them: shining shoes, peddling newspapers, begging...
...bank of the Seine. Marthe is in tears; her lover has abandoned her. She consoles herself with Jacques. Hélas, the affair is only a dream; in the end it is shattered by the little ironies of circumstance. During their chaste interlude, Jacques and Marthe bathetically wander the streets of Paris, serenaded by muzzy folk singers and a bossa nova group whose sentimentality matches the scenario. Four Nights of a Dreamer is adapted from a story by Dostoevsky. Surely not the Feodor Dostoevsky...
...overwritten, overpraised work is the result of minor talents pursuing significance like hounds chasing after an endangered species. The film employs all the stock subjects of contemporary fiction, from the insensitive husband (Kenneth Mars) to the anaesthetized heroine (Shirley MacLaine). Her name is Sophie, a Manhattan housewife compelled to wander glassily through Frank D. Gilroy's scenario like a science-fiction victim: The Woman Without a Brain...
Before there was coeducation at Harvard, Cambridge women would wander into Radcliffe classrooms and freely audit lectures given by Harvard professors. After 1946, when Radcliffe academically merged with Harvard, these wandering scholars were turned away from lectures for lack of space. For a time, even the Cliffies had to stand in the back of the lecture hall lest a Harvard man be deprived a seat...
...Coutard, the skeletal narrative often seems no more than a backdrop for his arresting images. He is at his best looking at Saigon through the children's eyes as they wander through a nightmare city that has been torn by war but is still bursting with luxurious restaurants and gaudy nightclubs. Coutard seems to share the children's wonder and confusion. There is one especially moving interlude in which they huddle around a sidewalk movie machine to watch an old Fernandel film...