Word: realism
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...Ultimate. In L'Ascenseur pour I'Echafaud (U.S. title: Frantic], Malle put Moreau under an honest light and wisely let his camera linger. The film was nothing special, but it did accomplish one thing: it proposed a new ideal of cinematic realism, a new way to look at a woman. All the drama in the story was in Moreau's face-the face that had been hidden behind cosmetics and flattering lights in all her earlier films. When Malle made The Lovers the following year, it was obvious who his woman would be. For one thing...
...Hotel Bostonian does not muster enough reserve to pull off the play's melodramatic interludes. If the actors performed in a more genteel, more Victorian key, they might be able to speak Ibsen's moody lines more comfortably. Their aggressive, coloquial style tends to rinse away the realism which Ibsen wanted to achieve...
...Peter Hurd's postcards: If he lived in the Soviet Union he would no doubt be known as one of the more talented exponents of socialist realism. Perhaps Communism and capitalism have more in common than their diehard adherents think...
...Mississippi Bankers Association President Nat Rogers told the Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce: "We must recognize that we have a problem and come to grips with it. We must obey the law, keep in step with the times, and blend our enthusiasm with realism and honesty...
Half-Measures. The proposals disclosed little sense of realism. A broadened, "elephant" Cabinet would more than likely bog down in the same sort of bickering and flatulent debate that plagued Adoula's ill-fated government. There are few rebel prisoners untainted by the Simba massacres; in fact, there are few rebel prisoners of any kind, because the government soldiers kill their captives with as much dispatch as the Simbas. And the notion of winning over the Lumumbists by means of elections is a delusion. There may be some moderates among the rebels, but Lumum-bism and the whole rebel...