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Rising Stars From the East and West |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: Tom Huntington |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,638 Words, 9,531 Characters |
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Most parents would probably agree that having children can create a whole mess of problems. Two foreign films currently generating much interest, Akira Kurosawa's Ran and Jean-Luc Godard's Hail, Mary (Je Vous Salue, Marie) indicate just how bothersome offspring can sometimes be. Ran is Kurosawa's reworking of Shakespeare's King Lear, and its theme is "How sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a thankless child," with some of the director's own unique twists. Godard's film, also a retooling of an old story, concerns itself more with prebirth problems, and there are problems indeed when the mother-to-be turns out to be a virgin.
At the age of seventy-five, Akira Kurosawa is certainly one of cinema's grand old men, with a career spanning over forty years and twenty-seven films, incl...
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...he most sacrilegious part of the film. By reducing the events of Jesus' birth to the commonplace and beyond, Godard subverts all the ceremony and grandeur of the Catholic Church and its cult of the Virgin. But he may inadvertently have done the church a favor: Hail, Mary can make even the driest sermon look exciting by comparison. How sharper than a serpent's tooth to have a boring film!
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