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Inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s classic, Weber??s The Little Women tells the story of three sisters (Jo, Meg and Amy) whose disappointment with both their mother’s affair and their father’s dismissive attitude about it lead them to live on their own with Meg acting in as their mother. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...Weber??s review lavishes praise on Jarcho, singling her out from the other playwrights. “The title, with its ominously ironic suggestion of the nurturing of the very young, is a good indication of Ms. Jarcho’s sophistication,” he writes. “The playwright creates a hothouse for the misguided malevolence that might result in grievous disaster...
...Despite Weber??s obsessive grooming and refining of materials, his tastes are strikingly multi-faceted. This diversity perhaps accounts for the film’s narrative style, which is free-form and free-associative to a head-spinning degree. Archival footage of outrageous singer-pianist Frances Faye will dissolve into a filmed sequence of desert explorer Sir Wilfred Thesinger, which will morph into a series of still shots from small-town parade, which will change into a picture of a young model wearing a turban and silk shawls. Characters and events tumble by, with nary a clear transition...
...this detachment is precisely the point. Going back to that paradox mentioned earlier, the film’s world is one that, by necessity, no average onlooker is supposed to understand. Weber??s are subjects whose very existence is dependent on the level of mystery and intrigue that surround their names and images. We’re supposed to stare at them, to be arrested and impressed and maybe even obsessed…but certainly not to understand them. That wouldn’t be right; it wouldn’t seem fair...
...film, then, is chiefly about Weber??s vision; nothing else matters quite as much, because nothing else is so definable, or real. It is Weber??s blessing to have the ability—through power, influence, talent, skill—to create and capture a world that meets his fantasies. It is his curse, in a way, to recognize the limits of that world. To be sure, it is beautiful, refined, and spectacular…but it is also utterly unachievable, utterly false...