Avalon
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Movie Reviews of Avalon
Movie Review: Cutesy artsy movie devices in search of a movie
Summary: 2 Stars
A major disappointment after RAIN MAN had convinced me that Barry Levinson was a director to take note of. I generously give it two stars; one and a half would be more accurate. This movie traces the adventures of an immigrant family of sort-of generic ethnicity. Maybe not a bad idea, but too much of it is woefully bogged-down. A derailing streetcar and a boy attacked by a swarm of bees are among the numerous disjointed episodes that essentially go nowhere. It's hardly a sign of a great movie when its most memorable episode is of a schoolboy getting himself in a lurch by asking the teacher "Can I go to the bathroom?" when she's just finished lecturing on the difference between "can" and "may". If the whole movie were that memorable, it would be considerably better, though. Sometimes a movie is said to have needed better editing, but in this case, not much of a movie would be left. Early on there's a scene where a shroud is being spread over a casket at a funeral, then the magic of movie editing turns the shroud into a tablecloth being spread by a woman for a big feast. I can just hear critics calling that brilliant movie editing and talking about a "life goes on" message or something like that. But I only found it terminally cutesy.Movie Review: Terrible movie
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a 76-year-old Jew who grew up in East Baltimore, surrounded by Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Avalon depicted almost none of the typically Jewish experiences I recall from my youth: the seder at my great grandfather's table, the after school lessons at the Baltimore Talmud Torah, Yum Kipur services at the synagogue just up Baltimore Street from by grandmother's house, my bar mitzvah, etc., etc. Where was the Jewishness I expected to see? Not in this noisy, confusing chazerai!