Word: angst
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...force of her unspent passion, of her neurotic boredom, of her worship of her father, of her loathing for her husband and of many other intriguing things. The playwright has given the actress gold, but it lies under dark ground where she must assiduously dig. The degree of angst that Claire Bloom conveys could easily be relieved with a couple of aspirin...
...Passion of Anna. Ingmar Bergman's relentless closeup of the artist in a world where screams of Angst are answered by the silence...
Authentic though the angst is, Segal's images tend to wear it as a dandy wears his cane-as a badge rather than an expression of individuality. The tension Segal achieves between the intimacy of his situations and the stiff, objective distance of the plaster effigies is often haunting. But even ghosts can turn predictable. And sometimes one feels that, inside the plaster man, there is a plastic one signaling...
...simple juxtaposition of contemporary Angst with a spiritually exhausted Rome Before Christ (and After Fellini) is as facile as it is false. Below the rationale, Fellini seems to sense as much. Encolpius and his colleagues are too obviously fashioned after contemporary faggots; his mourning widow is ominously representative of Jackie Kennedy; his wall friezes seem copied less from Roman basements than department-store casements. The forced modernity denies complexity and does much to weaken the work's polished irony...
...calls this the element of discontinuity. We must crack open the old forms and push on toward the future. Christ is both immanent and futuristic; here and to come. Any over-balancing ends in existentialist entrapment. If the old God symbols are dead, so is Sartre with his existentialist "angst." The "nowism" of existcutialism and death-of-godism trapped man in himself. There is no way out. Man was trapped building a world which wasn't going anywhere and hadn't been anywhere...