Everything is ambiguous in Dadaist-to-Surrealist Man Ray’s— Emmanuel Radnitzky’s—L’étoile de mer, whose very title finds the star of the sky in the “star” of the sea. Accompanied by a poem by Robert Desnos, Ray’s silent masterpiece revolves around a man and a beautiful woman as they walk outdoors or otherwise unite. As its object, she […]
Daily Archives: April 28, 2010
This depressingly dull, largely incoherent musical derives, by way of a stage musical, from one of Ingmar Bergman’s beauties: Smiles on a Summer Night (1955), a Shakespearean comedy that submits romance to mortality’s clock as couples change partners during a weekend visit to the country. To judge from the film, Stephen Sondheim’s music and lyrics […]
Dennis Grunes 