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Harvard Film Archives at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
Today, however, both these visual keynotes have been replaced by the chaos of capitalism's dikaya zhizn, or "wild life": weather-beaten babushkas who beg from filthy sidewalks, marauding bands of gypsy children, Lycra-skirted strumpets cavorting with Western businessmen, bankers tooling around town in armor-plated Mercedes, mafia moguls in sharkskin suits who dine on Maine lobster with a $238-a-bottle champagne in five-star hotels. A sense of bewilderment plagues Moscow's residents as they attempt to sort out the conflicting claims of their half-remembered, precommunist culture from the hedonistic and corrupting pull of the West...
...addition, the wonderfully stimulating filming techniques which Kieslowski employed in "Blue" disappear here. He is more interested in the story than on overindulging this reviewer's taste for the visual...
This does not mean that Kieslowski does not use his visual talent. He steps into Karol's memory on occasion, replaying his reel-to-reel vision of walking from the marriage altar and stepping into the sun with Dominique. Her kiss always ends this sequence of hazy golden light and crinolin...
Laid-off staff members speak harshly of Pillsbury's and Pisar's "mismanagement." A former visual-arts curator, Michael Tarrantino, says that "Pillsbury's fantastic at greeting people, but he's not a manager." Says another ex-curator, Denise Luccioni: "There was no budget. I was just supposed to work, and we were told, 'We'll find the budget."' Even as the financial crisis was coming to a head in 1992, says Luccioni, the board of directors, uninformed about the money problems, was debating questions like "If you say American Center, does that imply Mexico and Canada?" Outsiders are also...