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re: HERE WE ARE Tonight (Possible Spoiler)
Posted by: singleticket 10:38 am EDT 10/14/23
In reply to: HERE WE ARE Tonight (Possible Spoiler) - sergius 12:17 am EDT 10/14/23

I think music adaptation in general brings more sentiment to Bunuel's film. It did that even in Thomas Ades' percussive opera adaptation of the film which I admired. I saw the film again recently and certainly, it's a satire of the bourgeoisie but it also does a good job of resisting interpretation. This time around I saw the hapless dinner guests as anyone of us or really everyone of us who are stuck inside a creed, a structure or an ideology and don't even know what the boundaries are that are keeping us inside.
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re: HERE WE ARE Tonight (Possible Spoiler)
Posted by: sergius 01:54 pm EDT 10/14/23
In reply to: re: HERE WE ARE Tonight (Possible Spoiler) - singleticket 10:38 am EDT 10/14/23

Thanks, singleticket, for this thoughtful and well stated response. I agree with you in theory, but here there's not much of a score in the second Act which is when the show lurches toward sentimentality; it's not the music, it's the book. I'm not convinced that Bunuel intended that we be moved by this story. If I had seen THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL as you did I might have liked it--and maybe HERE WE ARE--more. But your take is appreciable.
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