ABBA-toire?
Anthony Lane’s review of Mamma Mia! in the July 28th New Yorker Magazine is a zealous and amusing tit-biter. Here’s a taste:
The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take “Mamma Mia!” to be a useful contribution to that debate. In a way, the whole film is a startling twist on the black art of rendition: ordinary citizens, often unaware of their own guilt, are spirited off to a secure environment in Eastern Europe, there to be forced into a humiliating and often painful confession of sins past. “I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind,” in the bitter words of Sam.
Mangiate!