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...world's largest film festival, held every May in Cannes on the French Riviera, also doubles as a more refined Academy Awards. Past winners of the Palme d'Or--Cannes' top prize--have been sex, lies and videotape; Pulp Fiction and Apocalypse Now, all of which were almost completely snubbed when it was time to give out little golden statues in America. It should come as no surprise that Rosetta, this year's controversial winner of the Palm, is being released in the US with little fanfare, and probably to a limited run. It's a shame because films like...
...Slowly, and almost unconsciously, banal daily events take on a greater depth of meaning, because not only is Rosetta poor, she and her mother live in a near-animalistic state. Rosetta earns paltry sums of money by selling repatched clothes to a local second-hand shop, catches fish with a crude wire-and-bottle and can only ease the physical pain of abdominal cramps with a hair-dryer pressed against her belly. The alcoholic mother is reduced to exchanging oral sex for rent and electricity bills, and the two live in a dismal trailer park ironically named "Le Grand Canyon...
...Yeremin's vision, and what ensues is a battle between two equally valid, but ultimately incompatible, forms of beauty--the understated and the grand. Ivanov is a play about the unspoken wars that rage inside our consciousness. But Yeremin's Ivanov is about another sort of battle: an almost literal fight between a brilliant text and a brilliant, but misguided, production...
...stage so that we cannot help but notice his misery, strips to the waist and spreads his arms like Christ on the cross, and by the end shouts his anguish to all who will listen. Debra Winger as Ivanov's wronged and ignored wife Sarah goes from the almost unbearably saintly (Sarah of the Infinite Patience) straight to Medea mode (Sarah the Terrible). And Benjamin Evett as her doctor comes across more like the Scourge of God than a concerned physician...
...Hurricane, and The Talented Mr. Ripley? Why don't these studio heads realize how ridiculously long 2 hrs and 40 minutes is for a movie that isn't about a sinking boat? In order to see these four films (all presumably good ones), you'll have to spend almost 12 hours in a movie theater over Christmas break. But if you want to watch Toy Story 2 four times - a movie that no doubt is better than any of those will be - it'll take you a curt six hours... Speaking of Toy Story 2, I'm still raving about...