“How do you like the New World?” “I’ll like it better when it’s finished.” “Who knows what lies behind those masked faces.” From Prosper Mérimée’s nineteeth-century play Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement, set to music by Vivaldi in an eighteenth-century Spanish-ruled colony in Peru, Jean Renoir’s colorful Le carrosse d’or is “a fantasy in the Italian […]
Daily Archives: March 16, 2009
A loud, coarse, melodramatic romantic comedy, Moonstruck is forced, artificial, and bereft of genuine humor or warmth. It’s an atrocity that only a robot programmed to do so might enjoy. Believing she is cursed (and looking witchy enough to prove the point), Loretta Castorini, a widowed Brooklyn bookkeeper who feels that her first marriage was […]
Dennis Grunes 