Word: tango
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a European director makes a film in English, the result is almost always disaster: Truffaut, Antonioni, Bergman, Visconti, Wertmuller have all come to grief when straying from their mother tongues. But Bertolucci, who once broke down the limits of propriety in Last Tango in Paris, has now crashed through the language barrier as well. With the crucial collaboration of Jill Clayburgh, he has made a movie in English without sacrificing any artistic integrity. Indeed, Luna may be his most controlled and personal film to date...
...first time Bertolucci has unloaded the ideological baggage that seemed superfluous to The Conformist and Last Tango and overwhelmed 1900. Though the director's true subject has always been erotic passion, he has usually tried to obscure that fact by littering his movies with Marxist and Freudian bromides. There is no such posturing in Luna. Bertolucci deals directly with his real obsessions; his film is a lucid and uninhibited journey to the outer limits of human behavior...
...celebrated their first wedding anniversary with a few close Greek friends on Christina's island, Skorpios. The party was deliberately simple: an anniversary cake helicoptered in from the mainland, along with champagne, caviar, smoked salmon and lobster. Then the couple led off some barefoot dancing, choosing a tango as their starter. There were no signs of discord in the union. Sergei, who has been allowed out of Moscow on an extended visa rarely granted by Soviet authorities, is taking a stronger role in managing one of the capitalist world's largest fleets. And Christina, happy in her marriage...
Bingham missed a second roundtripper in the three-run eighth when he drove one to the base of the fence in center for a triple. This one scored Pearce, who had singled, and Stenhouse, who hit one that Shemp tried to tango with, only to miss connections with his intended partner...
...view, work at Bass and Marshall is grinding, trivial and dehumanizing, especially when it interferes with Sam's love for another associate, Camilla Newman. The attraction, however, is a mystery. Ms. Newman is profane, nasty and thoroughly obsessed by her job. Her few excursions into sex make Last Tango in Paris seem tender. When she dumps Weston to take up with Lawrence, an associate who wants to make partner the way condemned men want to live, it is difficult to grant the hero any sympathy...