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26 — Wednesday, April 5, 1989 — North Shore News

better without Zoe

THREE OF America’s top directors contribute a segment to
this trilogy of short stories about their favorite city.

First up is Martin Scorsese's Life
Lessons (**'4), a stylish look at the
complex relationship between a
passionate painter, Lionel Dobie
(Nick Nolte) and his assistant,
Paulette (Rosanna Arquette). Al-
though they no longer share a
bed, they stalk the same studio.
She dabbles with other men in
front of him, while he jealously
tries to rein her in.

Nolte is at his slovenly best,
hopelessly obsessed with this live-
in pupil who seems to be using
him for her own selfish career
reasons. He, on the other hand, is
feeding on the turmoil. Slashing
away at his enormous canvas,
Lionel releases his frustration while
trying to whip up some pieces for
a gallery showing.

Scorsese's trademark swirling
camera makes for an exhilarating
start that quickly comes to a
screeching halt with the second
item, Francis Coppola's Life With
Zoe (*).

If only it was life without Zoe.
instead, we are subjected to the
improbable adventures of a rich
12-year-old (Heather McComb),
attempting to reunite her estrang-
ed parents (Talia Shire and Gian-

carlo Giannini). Self-consciously

cute, this middle story is childish
instead of childlike.

Saving the best for last, we have
Woody Allen’s Oedipus Wrecks
(***). Woody plays Sheldon, a
successful lawyer still cringing
whenever he sees his nagging
mother (Mae Questel).

TIM
BELL

film reviewer

Wishing she would just disap-
pear, he is delighted when she
mysteriously vanishes during a
magician’s act. But her reap-

earance shortly thereafter is a hi-

jarious exaggeration of the
dominating mother syndrome.

Woody once again returns to his
specialty of comedic fantasy to
make New York Stories a two-
thirds success.

Well, two out of three ain’t bad.
Clean and Sober **% (Warner
Home Video) Rated R

Michael Keaton flexes his serious
acting muscles in this drama about
chemical dependency.

Daryl Foynter (Keaton) is having

Photos probe theories

MONTREAL ARTIST Nicole
Jolicoeur will exhibit a new work
created for Présentation House
Gallery from April 8 to May 7.

The work continues Jolicoeur’s
research on the 19th century Pari-
sian neurologist Jean-Martin: Char-
cot and his theories on feminine
hysteria.

The gallery conception of this
new work developed largely in
response to the gallery's selection
of a second April exhibit, Master-
pieces of Medical Photography.

“My intention was to establish
a dialectical relation with that ex-
hibition by destabilizing the effect

Many, many styles
to choose from.

of truthfulness connected to
photography, especially scientific
photography, and by pointing up
the fictional dimension at work
both in the manipulation of
photographs and in the constitu-
tion of theory,’ said Jolicoeur.

The exhibition will be accom-
panied by a publication by
Jolicoeur and Toronto
psychiatrist-writer Jeanne Ran-
dolph, produced by the gallery.

Opening night is Apri! 7 from 8
to 10 p.m. Joliceeur will give a talk
on her work April 10 at 7:30 p.m.

For more information phone
Presentation House, 986-1351.

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one of those days. His one-night
stand has O.D.’d in bed and his
employers have discovered
$90,000 has been embezzled. A
golden opportunity seems to pres-
ent itself in the shape of a drug
rehab centre that guarantees ano-
aymity. During the thirty-day pro-
gram, Daryl realizes this sanctuary
may well be his salvation. Keeping
him on the uphill path are a
counsellor (Morgan Freedman), an
A.A. sponsor (M. Emet Walsh) and
a fellow recovering junkie (Kathy
Baker).

Keaton does a very good job
engaging our sympathy for a yup-
pie character who is selfish and
mean-tempered. ‘“‘Moonlighting’’
creator Glenn Gordon Caron plays
down the cliches.

NORTH SHORE VIEWS
West Van Odeon: Fletch Lives,
Working Girl, Mississippi Burning
Park Royal: The Rescuers, Rain
Man, Sin:
Park & Tilford: Biil & Ted's Ex-
cellent Adventure, Skin Deep,
Dangerous Liaisons, Troop Beverly
Hills, Dead Bang, Fletch Lives

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