Theater: With Jesus in Bavaria

have left everyone altered in appearance and social position, and malicious gossip summarizes everybody’s transformations, rises, or falls. For the average moviegoer, totally bewildering.

Missing, of course, is Proust’s masterly prose style with its minute observations, philosophic speculations, and epigrammatic pungency, often in page-long architectonic and musical sentences. The cineaste’s equivalent is the extended and complex shot, with the peripatetic camera capturing elaborate goings-on without cutting. We get some of this from Ruiz, but without the supreme lucidity of the assured master.

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Linda Bridges

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have left everyone altered in appearance and social position, and malicious gossip summarizes everybody’s transformations, rises, or falls. For the average moviegoer, totally bewildering.

Missing, of course, is Proust’s masterly prose style with its minute observations, philosophic speculations, and epigrammatic pungency, often in page-long architectonic and musical sentences. The cineaste’s equivalent is the extended and complex shot, with the peripatetic camera capturing elaborate goings-on without cutting. We get some of this from Ruiz, but without the supreme lucidity of the assured master.