Through a Glass, Darkly - Bill Hussey

Through a glass darkly

Advantages: Good Conclusion
Disadvantages: Slow pace

discover all the charges against Marco have been dropped. Upon his release the three men bump into Marco's father in law De Cal, an owner of the local glass making plant. He is furious with Marco and threatens to hurt him. After some informal enquiries Brunetti is satisfied that 'the old man' is just shouting his mouth off and means him no actual harm. Then Giorgio Tassini, the Night Watchman at the Glass Plant is found dead. Upon investigation he has also been talking bitterly about the Plant to everyone. Brunetti discovers he has a dossier about the Plant, claiming the owner to be responsible for his two year old daughter's bad health. The Commissario must find out if it is Tassini's own guilt that makes him believe this or if there really is a case to answer by De Cal and the other next door plant owner Fasano. My thoughts ...

CPTDANIELS 31.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Through a Glass, Darkly - Donna Leon

One of Bergman's Finest

Advantages: Not a trace of banality there
Disadvantages: Misogyny

The first thing to mention is a little known fact. This film is part of a trilogy: it is followed by 'Winter Lights' and 'The Silence'. So if one really wants to come to terms with what Bergman has to say about religion and God then all three should be watched. In spite of this 'Through a Glass Darkly' can very easily stand alone as a cinematic masterpiece. Nykvist's cinematography is something purely beautiful and each individual actor, without exception, produces a wonderful performance. Dealing with God, Sanity, Love, Sexuality, Artistic production, philosophy and more the film itself is bursting with meaning and the intellectual achievement on Bergman's part should not be underplayed. Although there are rather assertive overtone's of Freudian misogyny in the use of female hysteria yet one cannot necessarily mark this negatively ...

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Review of Through A Glass Darkly (DVD)

Vile Venetians

Advantages: Good characters, good descriptions of Venice
Disadvantages: not too thrilling

. What does all that mean? The Comissario takes over the case. Through a Glass Darkly is Donna Leon's 15th thriller in the Commissario Brunetti series, No 17 is already out in hardcover. I've read nearly all of them, I've only skipped two or three, why have I been so faithful especially as I wrote a review in 2001 (The Dark Sides of Venice) advising Donna Leon to take a break and not publish a new book every year, regular as clock-work? I've finally understood that what I complained about then - a not too thrilling plot - isn't relevant for her thrillers and her success, people just love the novels the way they are and as I always come back to them, she must indeed do something right, also for me. Like all the other novels before Through a Glass Darkly rests on four columns so-to-speak, 1) Commissario Brunetti, the private man with his ...

MALU 15.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Through a Glass, Darkly - Donna Leon