Word: yeux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often missed because in the U.S., at least, opera is usually sung in the original language, and most members of the audience have little more than a basic vocabulary consisting of amore morire, andia-mo, bene, coraggio, preghiera; Götter, Liebe, Tod, Sturm, Blut; merveille, sourire, larmes, yeux. English-language performances usually do not help because the translation is too often done by journeymen rather than by competent poets. As it is, the operagoer has the simple duty, to himself and to the work, of glancing at a libretto before he attends a foreign-language performance...
...woman is the other dove in the nest. Not so obviously, she is also in love with the hero. Any other questions? The film answers them in passably explicit detail and with a sick romantic energy that Honoré de Balzac, who wrote the tale (La Fille aux Yeux d'Or) on which the film is based, would surely have admired. Like the story the film has style, the grand fantastic style in which, as in a jungle, excess exceeds excess and every thing is reconciled in riot. Setting, lighting, cutting, acting: all are overdone to a degree...