Movies
January, 1992
An Old Woman leaning against the wind in a violent rainstorm is the final, most memorable image a viewer will take away from Rhapsody in August (Orion Classics). Pointedly symbolic, the scene recalls the day the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on Nagasaki. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, arguably the greatest living film maker, has made Rhapsody—his 29th movie—a rueful, conciliatory and quietly humorous family drama about the poignant aftermath of war. Richard Gere, the first American star ever hire...
