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...I don't want to see it surrounding the pastoral, and its unintentional obscuring of the that way...

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

...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...

...For that reason, even the weaknesses of the between capitalism and Christianity if you conceive of documentary - its simplistic rendering of the controversy capitalism as based on personal greed...

...her real father...

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

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

...rary Hollywood clonings...

...This is a Pope's text is not given but paraphrased, Sebastian Moore phenomenology of sexuality descriptive each section being accompanied with an in its intention...

...Private volfemininity...

...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...

...as well as allied issues of systemic change, even though Yet the letter has a wealth of other points to make, and it Archbishop Rembert Weakland peers into the camera to say: makes them with a degree of sophistication and nuance not ". .. it would seem that there is a kind of constant tension evident in the flm...

...system address the deprivations of the poor and unemployed...

...we are to avoid a fatal distortion - be Pope John -Paul, is that we are very Or is there only the idea of a divinely considered both as a failure of the poorly in touch with our sexuality as it shaped union of which our sexual ex- "lower" to obey the "higher" and as a truly is, as it images the creating perience is the always deficient expres- failure of the "higher" to befriend the Godhead...

...population itself...

...599 in the film, on small self-help projects sponsored by the join organizations similar to those presented here...

...impressive of all, ary...

...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...

...I think we have to inject into that system now the government's rightful role in providing for those without life's kind of unselfishness that will help us to all float in the boat necessities - should send viewers hammering on the parish together...

...Somehow, year's weekly public audiences...

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

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

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

...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...

...Individuals...

...But we are light years excellent summary and a valuable the partnership of man and woman as a away from the world of D.H...

...I flesh of my flesh...

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

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

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

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

...Catholic ter...

...But in sex, in a roll in the hay of Genesis that formed the content' of a Loyola University, $9.95, 248 pp...

...KAREN SUE SMITH Books: IDEAS OF CONSEQUENCE I N what is surely a labor of love, Mary FEAST OF LOVE body in its maleness or femaleness, its Durkin sets before us, in a beautifully POPE JOHN PAUL II essential incompleteness, yes...

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

...630 Natoma St., San Francisco, the system has overlooked, and may even motivate some to CA 94013...

...Of this sublime condi- ing clues in this dense text, I came upon work to a certain focus, where I find it tion, of intimacy in God, sexual union is something that I believe may be the clue...

...spiritual reflection by Mary Durkin...

...in the clear and readable form, the meditations ON HUMAN INTIMACY mysteriousness of the union of two in one of Pope John Paul II on the first chapters Mary G. Durkin flesh, yes...

...As that kind of is the bishops' primary interest: the need to make our economic introductory tool, the film serves a worthwhile purpose...

...talks is that the first three chapters of ing of sexuality is realized in our present, John Paul's interpretation of this moment Genesis, heard with faith, offer a per- fallen condition...

...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...

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

...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...

...The government's...

...But it is only the failure of the perspective, we have to consider what 'I keep getting the feeling, reading "lower" to obey that is considered...

...fascinatingly problematic...

...To get a glimpse of this true sion...

...It is in the reason why we are accustomed to the is this full sexual experience...

...the expression...

...The no...

...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...

...A worthy church, may confuse this issue of governmental responsibility, achievement...

...Okay, on a honeymoon...

...is very traditional...

...contradictions it engenders: the Fall...

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

...Lawrence...

...to participate effectively in government...

...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...

...That never comes through...

...In other words, what and the "lower" nature is lost...

...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...

...spiritual insight that the book contains...

...The result of disspective on sexuality that is far wider and The question I would raise is this: how obedience to God is that the harmony, in deeper than that to which we are accus- do we know when we are realizing this the human being, between the "higher" tomed...

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

...For the story is telling us, first, about the these profound reflections, that their what happens in John Paul's account is deep existential solitude of the human papal author does not believe that there is that they eat the fruit, that is, disobey being, which calls us into "partnership any clue to the sublime reality in sexual God, and as a result experience the lustwith the Absolute," and which reveals experience itself...

...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...

...sharing in this aloneness and partnership I mean that there is no feeling for that It is not possible in the space of a with God...

...But the pope stresses It occurs, not surprisingly, where the The fundamental idea behind these with what great difficulty this full mean- moment of the Fall is being explored...

...Further, there is a theological intimacy with God...

...In reflection on one's ful rebellion of their lower nature, as a Commonweal: 600...

...Belmont American-style...

...though it is, that evidences the beauty of A loss of harmony may - and must, if What the Fall means, according to sexual union as a covenantal expression...

...Is there treatment of this lost harmony that I find narrower view with all the conflicts and anything in sex as we know it, "fallen" the clue I have been seeking...

...Adam's ecstatic cry on seeing area of experience for which Lawrence review to do justice to the wealth of the woman, "Behold, bone of my bone, has found such memorable words...

...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...

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

...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...

...lower...

...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...

...is a prelude to the Wondering why this was so, and seekhave chosen, rather, to bring the whole Song of Songs...

...Most...

...office door for the final, forthcoming document, so they can What a viewer of the film can learn about the pastoral letter read it themselves, then discuss it with others...

...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...

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

...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...

...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...

...The savior from Hitler...

...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...

...It is available in tape, film, and video for rent or purchase The film may certainly increase the viewer's concern for those from California Newsreel...