A couple of musicals from our time are worth remembering.
When the song Cabaret comes at the end, you realize for the first time that it isn't a song of happiness, but of desperation. --Roger Ebert http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cabaret-1972
Making entertainment out of two months' worth of debates and parliamentary procedures in a meeting hall doesn't sound very promising, but 1776 is bright, witty, and affectionately satirical. --Glenn Erickson https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s4812seve.html
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Some previous knowledge of WW2 is rather helpful, as the politics of France before and during the war is no simple subject.
--Glenn Erickson
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s235sorrow.html
In its complexity, its humanity, its refusal to find easy solutions, this is one of the greatest documentaries ever made.
--Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-sorrow-and-the-pity-1972
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When the song Cabaret comes at the end, you realize for the first time that it isn't a song of happiness, but of desperation.
--Roger Ebert
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cabaret-1972
Making entertainment out of two months' worth of debates and parliamentary procedures in a meeting hall doesn't sound very promising, but 1776 is bright, witty, and affectionately satirical.
--Glenn Erickson
https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s4812seve.html
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