Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...priest forces a compromise that will give Fonse the orchard after Jofroi dies, the old man announces that he will commit suicide to put his death on Fonse's conscience. After some 30 suicide attempts, he intimidates Fonse into a sickbed. Though Pagnol's film technique is static, his grasp of character and locale makes for a human film that is, by turns, uproarious and more than a little touching...
This is a picture without preaching, without answers, without hope. Struggling alone to find a way out off the past and what the past has made of him, character after character ends where he started. It may be that they are distorted and static, robots who can only late themselves and hurt each other. What is terrifying is that they look so much like people...
Judith Anderson-who, on opening night, went on just after hearing the news of her mother's death-is very often sulphurous and always stage-dominating as Clytemnestra; but the role itself is generally so static that it compels the actress to become on occasion stagy. Beyond that, there are brief flashes of drama, bright snatches of language, and good moments (along with bad) of stage spectacle. Of many deeds unspeakable and atrocious has Pelops' line been many times accused; but perhaps never before of simply being dull...
Jean Giraudoux' comedy-satire clothes the theme of war and its causes in the flowing dress of Greek and Trojan; in doing so it saddles that theme with the static staging and long speeches of all but the most sensitively handled of Greek dramas. Last night's HTG's production was fully adequate, but only rarely sensitive. The result was disappointing...
...slight movement of the surface texture, obtained by applying the pigment in short brush strokes, was to give it a certain luminosity and lightness, besides the impression of dynamic suspension, rather than static solidity...