The finest film of the 1950s about disaffected youth is Gerhard Klein’s Berlin—Ecke Schönhauser, written by Klein and Wolfgang Kohlhaase. The setting is East Berlin a few years prior to the construction of the Berlin Wall; most of the adolescents here are jobless, aimless. Klein’s film is unsentimental; it is therefore unlike the monstrously sentimental […]
Daily Archives: June 2, 2009
“No one forgets the truth, Frank. They just get better at lying.” Or worse at writing, to judge from the above line snapped at her husband by April Wheeler in a heated marital exchange in Revolutionary Road. I have not read Richard Yates’s novel, and I do not know whether this line is his or […]
Dennis Grunes 