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Trás-os-Montes filled the Portuguese cinema houses3 with the caterwaul of a young shepherd boy. Panning across the mountain region of northeast Portugal, the first of the film’s three shepherds herds us brashly, with furrowed brow, into the corral of the film’s life. We first see a young boy turn back to witness many scenes, our comprehension can prove unclear, but once we are reminded there is a boy who has turned to stop and look back, an overwhelming understanding of…
Exodus is a mass misunderstanding of space where characters consistently pave over what is before them. In Sal Mineo’s key scene, he is humiliated by the Irgun when he lies about his complicity in Nazi concentration camps. He then joins the Irgun, continuing to aid the Nazi ideology that has caused him so much strife. Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint disagree over coexistence at Mount Tabor, claiming what they call the Valley of Jezreel (Marj Ibn Amir) for the…
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