Opening scenes in which a jaunty song about breakfast and lively encounters with Umi's housemates are juxtaposed with her lonely ritual of flag - raising, set the tone for the film's balance of postwar optimism and sense of possibility with the lingering melancholy of absence, loss and longing. (filmireland.net)
While the show certainly made for numerous lively encounters, it couldn't in the end breath new life into everything: Kounellis» parrot was missing from its perch (Untitled, 1967), no one was playing Bach's St John Passion (the score of which appears on Untitled, 1971), there wasn't a butane torch in sight, and the 12 horses, woe of woes, weren't stabled in the turbine hall. (frieze.com)
The new stopper is expecting it to be a lively encounter as well and he knows that thge pace and intensity of football in England can often take players from overseas by surprise, so he has been working hard on certain parts of his game in order to cope. (justarsenal.com)