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...BU has won its first two games, and its 2-0 victory over Brandeis convinced scouts that they will be tough...
Creative artists-not to mention many theologians-have long been intrigued by the thought that Jesus, if he returned to earth, might be scorned or rejected by modern Christianity. Implicitly, this is the theme of Nazarin, a Mexican film made ten years ago by Luis Buňuel;, a onetime cinema surrealist and lifelong enemy of church and state. The film is now shown in the U.S. for the first time, in the wake of his successful Belle de Jour...
Like Don Quixote, Nazarin is the traditional Spanish visionary-fool, who perceives what others cannot and becomes a mirror in which evil men see only themselves. But Buňuel, who has lived and worked in Mexico for more than 20 years, is no Cervantes, his portrait of the tyrannized, superstition-racked land is as primitive as the peasants themselves. The film's best moments are miniatures: the grotesque love story of a dwarf and a whore; the sudden hysterics of women keening over a dying child; a love-haunted, plague-struck woman who is offered dirisxian...
BELLE DE JOUR. Luis Buñuel, the aging Spanish director, fills this baroque piece of pornography about the obsessive fantasies of a young wife (Catherine Deneuve) with some of his most elegant fetishist jokes and anticlerical broadsides...
...makes amends for the static mise en scéne. BELLE DE JOUR. Ranging easily from anticlerical broadsides to highly polished pornography, this bizarre tale of the sexual fantasies of a beautiful young wife (Catherine Deneuve) makes a fitting capstone to the 40-year career of Spanish Director Luis Bu...