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Films
May 13, 1968 issue

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At least a generation ago, film ceased to be a window and became a language, with its own grammar, idioms, elisions, figures and rhetoric. Much is made of the fact that War and Peace runs six and a half hours, but time spent in the theatre is largely subjective and the fact is that the picture begins to seem interminable in the first forty-five minutes. It is ablaze with color and reeling with action, but it proceeds at a pace so meticulously explicit that one's back muscles ache from the strain of holding back. It is not War and Peace; it is a description of War and Peace by an enthusiast who has taken firm hold of your jacket.

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MOTION pictures; POLITICS & war; PEACE; INTERNATIONAL relations; THEATER; PERFORMING arts
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