Screen

...In the second, he plays a tians realize what they have been missing by being separated homosexual petty criminal who seduces a couple (including from one another and create a truly effective witness to the Cannes Best Actor award winner Michel Blanc and Miouworld, especially in our religion-drenched but spiritually im- Miou) and reduces their life to farce...

...A lobbying group in Minnesota works for a sion from a youth club of the party (for loving a "reaction- moratorium on farm foreclosures...

...Both films, however, are poverished America...

...first century...

...Yet the emphasis 7 November 1986...

...599...

...Like and narrow preoccupations of many church people...

...watching their goodbye at a rail station, I almost felt letter on the U.S...

...impressive of all, ary...

...her real father...

...TOM O'BRIEN important and positive role for government...

...Everything seems the film's music...

...I call it dead...

...Focus on churchy mat- beautiful, and affectingly linked to blindness, but like other ters offers new excuses for the already rampant complacency elements in the film its use never jells with the plot...

...tales of Stalinist anti-Semitism in the "white bear country" of The most moving scenes show projects funded by the CamSiberia, Nadia gets even more confused...

...paign for Human Development (CHD...

...len's use of jazz as a sign of bygone grace...

...Their scenes are shot in black and Money" - a film based on the Catholic bishops' pastoral white...

...in between came the marvelous Therese, a study of Saint Therese of Lisieux, which Give Commonweal for will not be released until December...

...Other good foreign films Christmas include Rouge Baiser, which was only shown at the Boston Commonweal: 598 rather than an axe to grind, and Red Kiss is free of the desire to punish men and free of the disguised anti-Semitism that mar- Media red Kurys's work...

...get some focused attention...

...sition - Rome would not look any more favorably on the festival and has been held back from release until now, when, Lutheran ordination of women (to be followed soon by female like a single red maple leaf on an increasingly bare tree, it can bishops) than does the Missouri Synod...

...In one touch of hand to mouth, Keller catches much of and Bette Jean Bullert...

...objections raised to the pastoral by legitimate challengers, Red Kiss redeems "coming of age" films from contempo- some of whom make succinct dissenting remarks in the film...

...economy - one has to acknowledge the they resembled Bogart and Bergman's Rick and Ilsa in Casa- problems faced by its producers, John Coney, John de Graaf, blanca...

...The director deals her plot cards so deftly that one hardly But all of these scenes, inspiring as they are, are presented at notices how sensational are the "discoveries" at the end, the expense of other, more fundamental, implications of the when, as in any true romance, the fairy princess must discover pastoral concerning capitalism as an economic system...

...But Belmont has a tale to tell, included the opening features in New York (Down By Law) and the closing (Peggy Sue Got Married...

...to participate effectively in government...

...But Belmont focuses on the era's political complexities, not 'GOD & MONEY' the inability of (Jewish) men to satisfy glamorous women...

...Bertrand Blier has structured mainly to shock...

...Belmont shares Kurys's sparkling photographic realism, rapid anecdotal style, and the same fascination with the immediate postwar period when both grew up...

...Instead, they chose to present actual examvividly, half-sympathetically, recreates the mood of French ples of what the church is now doing - with a healthy and Communists, especially Jews, who revered Stalin as their encouraging dose of lay leadership - to serve the poor...

...practice often creates more real unity than trying to resolve the Police and Menage star the tall, angular, massive Gerrard secondary issues that preoccupy the institutional guardians of Depardieu, the unforgettably lovable faker of The Return of ecclesiastical order...

...An autobiographical film by French writer, Nevertheless, most of the films at such festivals are not director, producer Vera Belmont, it reminds one of Diane worth seeing, and will hardly last the autumn...

...But when she realizes what prigs the Communist youth Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS) - an are, she flamboyantly begins an anti-Stalinist striptease on organization composed largely of Hispanics in San Antonio - their dias...

...As in his magnificent A Sunday in the A HARVEST FESTIVAL Country, Tavernier is drawn to the subject of the aging artist, and here displays keen enthusiasm for the 1950s Parisian jazz craze in recreating "The Blue Note" club, filled with real jazz notables such as Herbie Hancock, who also composed much of FALL FILMS come and go like foliage...

...Most...

...Is it the church's...

...rather, he But it can be argued with equal force that practical coopera- lets his weight tower over you, almost veering toward the tion is continually limited and threatened by the still-real camera from the slope of his long, spindly nose to the base of religious divisions among us, and that the substitution of his six-foot frame...

...She is billed as a "Bardot who thinks," most Americans and most Catholics will ever be engaged in, and is never better than in her Rita Hayworth imitation - a even taken together they still fail to address a number of the half-camp, half-serpent-of-the Nile seduction...

...has improved the safety, physical appearance, and access to Belmont also nicely balances Nadia's journey up from city services in their community by learning how, as citizens, radicalism with a deeper understanding of her family's history...

...Perhaps only by making thriller, in which moral distinctions between police and crimithe difficult effort to fulfill Christ's call in John 17 will Chris- nals are increasingly obscured...

...The government's...

...The speculative discussions about such matters might at Cactus, with Isabelle Huppert, suffers from benign neglect least raise the same question for other Christians that have at the hand of its director, Paul Cox...

...Especially Children of a Lesser God, Cactus is an intelligent, noble in America, active Christians have worked out plenty of ways attempt to focus on a handicap, but has even less commitment to practice their faith across "denominational" lines, and that to the subject...

...Catholic ter...

...Belmont American-style...

...Huppert is injured in a car arisen for some Lutherans during the merger process...

...The plot concerns an elderly and alcoholic black musician (played by saxophonist Dexter Gordon), a Parisian admirer (Francois Cluozot), and the young daughter this Frenchman neglects in AUTUMN FILMS his near idolatry...

...But at an anti-American demonstration, film suggests that the church models what it preaches to the Nadia is beaten by the police, then saved by an apolitical, rest of society, and particularly to the government: an active amoral photographer (Lambert Wilson), whom she loathes, concern for the poor and the unemployed, for distributive tries to convert, then comes to love...

...When Moishe returns with justice in a land of plenty...

...fifties context...

...As a result, he is perfect for roles involving practical or "spiritual" cooperation for the visible unity of the a kind of awkwardly sweet menace, and he has two here...

...Round Midnight is an One is almost bedazzled by the forest of ads each day in the insider film with little attempt made to draw outsiders in...

...Her choice is affected by the presence of a Christians to be spending their time as they enter the twenty- blind artist (Peter Menzies) all too handy for plot purposes...

...Many of these acclaimed films are spectacularly promoted through prestige festivals in Toronto, Boston, and the R OUGE BAISER (or Red Kiss) places jazz in a more lively venerably pop New York Lincoln Center extravaganza...

...AUDITING THE ECONOMIC PASTORAL Belmont's film centers on Nadia (Charlotte Valandrey), whose story is in turn framed by her mother's (Martha Keller...

...It dares to treat youth not as a The question that needs to be answered more fully in the film condition in isolation from the real world but in engagement is: Whose responsibility is it to alleviate the pain of economwith key issues like belief, racism, heritage, immigration, ically disenfranchised groups...

...Belmont uses her simple, understated gesture poignantly, public television Sunday evening, November 9, is to set out then quickly cuts to the 1950s, with Keller married to a the major themes of the pastoral letter for an audience even different man, now the mother of Nadia and a younger daugh- broader than the spectrum represented by the U.S...

...Private volfemininity...

...tinctly unfriendly medium of film...

...Is in- accident, which forces her to choose between losing one eye or volvement with these messy ecclesiastical issues the way for going blind in both...

...The Australian scenery is world threatened by war and poverty...

...Valandrey carries her multifaceted role with Not only does each each project represent a tiny effort - charm, preciosity, and an admirably sultry resolution to find slightly reminiscent of the 1960s - uncharacteristic of what her own way in life...

...rary Hollywood clonings...

...The filmmakers seized the visual posNadia, fifteen, is caught between her inherited leftist sym- sibilities of the subject and wisely refrained from sledgepathies and an irrepressibly mischievous attraction to Scarlett hammering the viewer with scenes of economic misery, O'Hara, Rita Hayworth movies, and Coca-Cola...

...Individuals...

...the anguish of that era of forced departure, exile, extermina- The purpose of the hour-long documentary, which airs on tion...

...Energy devoted to internal church concerns Cox seems too embarrassed by his story to tell it straightforseems to detract from the urgent tasks of living the Gospel in a wardly, but his detours are fruitless...

...If the Lutheran merger proves to be even too mechanically amoral, especially Menage which director a small step in that direction, it will be worthwhile...

...In the church leads, eventually, to a loss of full religious motivation first, he plays a cop in the standard type of French crime for social action or any other venture...

...But if Red Kiss is The bishops say, unequivocally, that while it is the responnostalgic, its vision of the fifties is tough, complicated, and sibility of all these groups, Catholic social teaching includes an only slow to find peace...

...The savior from Hitler...

...garners...

...But no one not madly in love with jazz can lighted in bright, alluring reds and oranges - name bear the monotonous first hour of performances in the disdirectors, famous international stars, "adult" themes...

...Highlights Kurys's 1983 hit Entre Nous...

...Through CHD help a Belmont deals affectionately but ironically with the explo- small group of independent lobstermen, who nearly lost their sive mixture of ideology and hormones...

...Depardieu never seems to stand still...

...Nadia doesn't rebel businesses, forms a' successful cooperative in the Boston entirely against her background, and takes seriously her expul- archdiocese...

...Round Midnight is a painfully slow tribute to jazz in 1959 Paris by Bertrand Tavernier...

...Indeed, a pre-war prelude establishes a mystery, as Keller is seen bidding goodbye to Moishe, an immigrant Jewish Com- I N ORDER to appreciate the documentary "God and munist fleeing to Moscow...

...population itself...

...newspaper, and the cornucopia of critical raves each film Many who like this film call it "elegaic...

...Martin Guerre...

...The director is usually a master of Screen understatement, but this time it masters him...

...Scenes in smoky Parisian clubs echo Woody Al- untary associations...