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...exceptional. After Malli leaves Moshe, he runs down the street and falls to his knees. Without swearing or physical violence, the actor expresses, with understated poignancy, his turmoil, angst, and overwhelmed loneliness. Likewise, Michal Bat Sheva Rand’s depiction of Malli seems an easy embodiment of hearty womanhood. In this fable-esque movie, however, the characters do naturally tend towards archetypes. While this effectively spreads the film’s overarching religious themes—forgiveness and faith—it prevents the audience from wholly identifying with the two-dimensional Orthodox characters. The director?...
...black velvet. Splicing interviews with anthropologists, art critics and a memorable Reverend Mua, who "rarely gets to meet topless women in his line of work," over a soundtrack of Hawaiian slide guitar and a fictional detective narrator, Urale wittily debunks the myth of flower-behind-the-ear Polynesian womanhood. Yet through her lens, she can see both sides of the beach. "The really neat thing," she says, "is that I've got these different cultures that I totally embrace. I love the freedom that I get with Western values and ideals. And then I really love and appreciate the Samoan...
...voluptuary of angelic possession, and Plummer easily stole the show. Norman Jewison's direction goes for narrative suspense and coherence over emotional jolts, so now Agnes is merely first among equals. All three stars do smart, honorable work: Tilly, her childlike faith traumatized by the rude stirrings of womanhood; Fonda, the reluctant exorcist fiercely questioning her old God and, no less, herself; and Bancroft, a strict but up-to-date nun, with reserves of iron and irony...
DIED. Donna Reed, 64, hazel-eyed, sweetly pretty actress who came to symbolize the heartland virtues of American womanhood in films like It's a Wonderful Life (1946) but who won a supporting-actress Oscar when she played against type as a prostitute in 1953's From Here to Eternity; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. Best known as the warmhearted wife and mother in her weekly comedy television series The Donna Reed Show (1958-66), she once insisted that "the public really does want to see a healthy woman, not a girl, not a neurotic, not a sexpot." Her last...
...differ, so part of the book's pleasure comes from thinking about this idea. A superficial flip-though won't provide an answer. The 23 contributions cross boundaries of tone, subject and style. Leela Corman's emotionally raw tenement story of a young girl facing the mysteries of womanhood looks almost like a child's therapy comic. Eleanor Davis' "The Bird Eater," rendered in a style reminiscent of Aesop's fable woodcuts, tells a strange parable of a monster that terrorizes a community of tree-dwelling gnomes. Non-fiction also appears in the form of Gabriella's Gamboa's curious...