Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...looked forward to seeing them as Vanya and Sonya because both parts would demand a considerable stretch, a certain nakedness that neither has hitherto displayed. But instead of stretching to their parts, both have stretched the parts to accommodate themselves. Shohet has made Sonya, the most compassionate and heroic force in the play, a self-absorbed little bully, failing to realize that there is love in Sonya's reprimands or that her suffering goes way beyond her own unrequited love. Cornuelle doesn't help in the third-act confrontation, staging Sonya center stage, completely absorbed in her own sorrow, almost...
...arrest hasn't seemed to shake up the other refuseniks very much. In fact they've been very calm," Kranc said this week adding, "they're really an incredible people who just have very simple wishes and ambitions, it's the terrible circumstances that makes them so heroic...
...words, where Flying pretends to moralize smut, Fanny purports to dignify outrage. That any woman should allow herself to be raped by her stepfather, humiliated by the homosexual lover of the man she herself loves, and abused by a gang of perverted female whores is hardly forgivable, let alone heroic or commendable. Add to this the confusion Jong creates by eventually granting Fanny her converted, no-longer-gay man and by indicting such distinguished writers as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift as Fanny's not-so-distinguished lovers. The result is a novel that, in self-consciously trying to infuse...
...crisis point: the onset of adolescence, the breakup of a marriage, the end of a life. His best film, The Mouth Agape (1974), traced a woman's slow, painful death and its effect on her husband and her son. The film was slow and painful, and almost heroic in its unflinching compassion. Now, in Loulou, Pialat tells the story of an arrogant wastrel (Gerard Depardieu) and his sexual hold on a middle-class woman (Isabelle Huppert). She rejects the wimpy masochism of her petulant lover for the violent energies of the world's greatest stud. Last Tango, Take...
...self-pitying self-satire. It is so contemptuously intellectual that the jokes about intellectuals are not funny but ironic. "Intellectuals are like the Mafia: they only kill their own," Allen snaps, acknowledging his brand of artistic suicide. Allen was once a comic hero. But he is no longer heroic because he is no longer comic...