AUTEUR, AUTEUR The director David Fincher's new movie, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, makes remarkable use of digital technology to tell a story of intimate romance based on the fantastic premise of a man who is born old and, as the years pass, grows younger.
NEW BRUNSWICK Philip J. Levin Theater "Intimate Apparel," romance by Lynn Nottage.
David Bates and La Nuova Musica present the 1712 version of Handel's intimate Arcadian romance, Il pastor fido, at London's St George's, Hanover Square (Fri).
The end result is an elegantly experimental listen: the driving melancholy of shoegaze, the intimate, haunting romance of Beach House, the atmosphere of a strange, half-awake state.
NEW BRUNSWICK Philip J. Levin Theater " Intimate Apparel," a romance by Lynn Nottage.
Inspired by the opening line of "Henry V," its percussive battlefield effects and folklike lyricism intimate a Shakespearean romance in miniature.
The other entries are "The Dinner Game" and "The Closet," brilliant comedies by Francis Veber, and Patrice Leconte's sweet little romance "Intimate Strangers".
Alex Oscar Dupont – his working name is an anagram of the first two – came to prominence in the early-80s with the intimate, ultra-stylised romance Boy Meets Girl, and from there went the way of all auteurs, wasting time and money on long-gestating passion projects.
Yet, as in the 1945 drama "The Clock," directed by Minnelli's father, Vincente, and starring her mother, Judy Garland, the huge scenographic mechanism serves merely as a backdrop for an intimate two-person romance, suggesting that the real life of the city is the liberated inner life it fosters.
The dynamic scenery throughout the short music video looks like wavy expressionist paintings that capture beautiful natural landscapes and intimate scenes of romance.
Sad as it is to report, he intimates that The Romance of Astrea and Celadon is likely to be his swansong: "I haven't got plans to make another film, it's not easy for me to make films now.
