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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nasser backs Heikal not only because they are friends but because the editor is also extremely useful to him. Even Heikal's occasional criticism of the regime-always within safe bounds -is of advantage to Nasser. It acts as a safety valve for popular grievances. Nasser himself has even planted criticisms of this or that functionary or institution with Heikal, then taken action under the guise of bowing to popular will. Heikal puts his influence to good use, battling the bureaucrats and campaigning for a freer press and civil liberties in a country that often views such activities...
...wistful boozer. But in his first major role, Jack Nicholson proves that he knows far more about acting than either of his costars. His elegies for a vanished life are melancholy without being bathetic; his marijuana-flavored description of a UFO takeover of the U.S. is a perfect comedy within a flawed tragedy...
...patients can get jobs ranging from housekeeping to masonry to work in a large greenhouse. The hospital saves a lot of money this way; the pay is low, but for a patient living in the hospital, five dollars a week is plenty of spending money. Furthermore, having a job within the hospital is one of the best ways to help someone readjust gradually to the life they will have when they leave. In fact, the degree to which the hospital gets around its limitations is phenomenal...
Once the volunteer has been around for a while, he can cite numerous programs going on within the hospital; reading classes for retarded patients, art therapies, group therapies; medications, dances, etc., etc., etc. But it is not these things that are the most impressive to him. He has felt the frustration and occasional pangs of hopelessness in working with someone who clings tenaciously to his problems. He can understand the tremendous demands placed on attendants and doctors alike, the energy which is required to understand and help a patient. To see a staff working in the fact of these odds...
Nevertheless, there are value judgements in this film. Agnes Varda is for love, good, and light, ambivalent about game playing, and against cynicism. Above all, I think, she believes in the ultimate endurance of live within the human spirit as a redeeming value, a force which transcends isolated relationships and permits us to continue to live...