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...savage novel, is the best from Britain since The Angry Silence and Room at the Top. A fascinating exploration of the values of the welfare state's own working class. Albert Finney, the Olivier of his generation for some, gives a near-superb performance as the embattled young Lancashire protagonist. Evenings...
...novel, is easily the top film from Great Britain since Room at the Top. A fascinating exploration of the values of the welfare state's own working class. Albert Finney, already being hailed as the Olivier of his generation, gives a near-superb performance as the embattled young Lancashire protagonist. Evenings...
...telling his story of a 12-year-old boy unwanted at home and in trouble at school, Truffaut has capitalized on the youthful exuberance and curiosity of his protagonist. Young Antoine Doinel is often in flight and the main quality of the film is one of swirling motion. Streets, houses, neon signs, and country landscapes are constantly whizzing by in blurred succession. The camera only once focuses on the runner directly--in his last escape from a Correction Institution--otherwise, the viewer is absorbed in this kaleidoscopic world of the breathless fugitive...
Halberstam finds a link between ter in his protagonist's paranoiac pride. Because Angelo was Italian, the local burghers never accepted him. With this alienation as a basis, Halberstam makes the bootlegger a proud man who must win completely or completely withdraw, who manifests his hatred for the hypocrites of Corvallis by selling whiskey to them. Pride, however, does not succeed in uniting the two sides of Angelo. We are unsure whether he is a man terribly hurt, striking back violently, or-a sadistic artist taking pains to perform every little criminal chore in exactly the right manner...
Mirsky's inordinate use of Yiddish words; his extraordinary stress on Jewish self-abasement, passivity, and lamentation in Twirckoff's response to crisis; his condescending attitude toward his protagonist; and the intrusion of a phony mystical hallucination at the end to get Twirckoff off the spiritual hook--all of these flaws keep "Lukshin Kugel" from creating any unified effect...