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Robert Mulligan: So Niles
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Robert Mulligan, a native of Michigan, graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication. After working for several years in television, Mr. Mulligan moved to Bilbao, Spain with his wife, Natalia, where he played soccer in the second division and taught English and Communications at a local junior college.
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Would you want to see what would result if Robert Mulligan filmed a story about white children watching and learning from black people directly? Well, Clara’s Heart is just that film, albeit with compromises of its own. Dealing with the thorny issue of relations between black and white worlds—rarely allowed to be tackled with candor in Hollywood—Mulligan twice took imperfect material and fashioned something powerful and humble and even honest about it. The flaws remain, and are worth discussing, but if we rush over the miraculous achievements of a director too rarely championed in film culture, we can lay no claim to fully understanding either of these films.
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Robert is a UEFA "B" licensed coach. He is currently in the process of getting his "A" license. He has brought an Irish youth BU13s team to World Club Championships and has coached youth soccer at an elite level for many years. Robert directed and set up after school soccer programmes in Ireland for many years. He is presently the Club Director for Apple Valley Storm, CA.
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Mulligan orchestrated wonderful touching moments between Uta Hagen and young Chris as Niles...loving moments whereby a blue-eyed angelic tow-headed child adored his wise and spirtually advanced grandmother. Much was made of the special psychic games they played, with Niles projecting his mind, and perhaps even his essence, into things and others; guessing the sex of his sister's unborn child, and even projecting into a crow, able to cognizantly fly freely over the farmlands cawing greetings to all it recognized. This was a game that Niles was so adept at, had perfected so well, that he had no difficulty dealing with his own split personality, and embracing a form of complete denial at to his brother's actual death, and further denial as to his own responsiblity for conducting divers heinous acts in the guise of, or as Holland. So Niles never had to be alone, would not accept being alone.
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At the same time, Mulligan alternates long, fluid camera movements with short, static shots. Toward the end of the film, he breaks even spatial continuity (in the barn burning) to intercut shots of Ada’s face with the face of the Angel of a Brighter Day (a stained-glass-window angel in a nearby church) and suggests Ada’s transformation as it appears in Niles’s mind. Mulligan’s rhythmic editing reflects the film’s narrative dialectic between imagined and real experience.
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This amazing soundtrack should be one of the reasons that explain the success of Un été 42 by Robert Mulligan (1971). Thus, it became a real cult movie in the 70's and one of the evidence of the music's part in this success is the Oscar that awarded the composer !
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