Movies such as Found Memories (Film Movement, $22.46) are the reason the cinematic arts exist, accumulating its poetry, power and poignancy the way no other medium can. Borrowing from the structuralist playbook of Chantal Akerman, Brazilian director Julia Murat depicts every banal movement of Madalena (Sonia Guedes), an elderly widow whose primary purpose in life is to bake the … [Read more...]
Theater roundup: Three shows demonstrate strength of South Florida season
Depression-era escapism proves to still be potent entertainment as Cole Porter’s 1934 enduring hit Anything Goes splashes across the stage of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Surely it cannot be because of the flimsy story line, even if it got a major overhaul in 1987 by Timothy Crouse and John Weidman, who simply added new wince-inducing jokes. No, the material works almost … [Read more...]
Frank tale of elder love stumbles on routine plot
Even as statistic after statistic shows that senior citizens fornicate just about as much as the rest of us, showing sex among elders remains taboo in American film and TV. If not found under the “educational” auspices of HBO’s Real Sex, senior citizen flesh is usually only depicted in sophomoric comedies for cheap laughs (recall the hospital scene in The Hangover or Andy … [Read more...]