Word: obsessionals
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First among them is Moses Berger, a former academic who seems to regard the slogan DRINK CANADA DRY as a moral imperative. As a child in Montreal, he is introduced to a local clan of mysterious origin and unlimited wealth. Forty years later, Berger finally discards alcohol for a fresh...
MONSIEUR HIRE. In rank solitude, a strange man (Michel Blanc) watches a pretty woman (Sandrine Bonnaire), and someone has murder in mind. From the Georges Simenon novel, French filmmaker Patrice Leconte spins a handsome web of obsession, betrayal and death. Blanc is spookily splendid as the pathetic voyeur.
What the cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream does best is to play up the humor of the innuendoes in the play. The innuendoes, of course, are mainly sexual in character. Indeed, sex is almost an obsession with this production.
Then there are the Lynchian touches of off-kilter characters and sideshow weirdness. A woman with an eyepatch has an obsession with drapes. Visitors to a bank vault find a stuffed deer head lying on the table. "It fell down," notes a bank officer blandly. The boyish FBI agent (Kyle...
There are plenty of reasons to stage a major Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' most erotic, bedroom-centered play -- the power and vinegar of its language, the timelessness of its obsession with money, the candor and subtlety of its homosexual subtheme -- but only one reason why it actually happened. The...