Word: anguishes
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Lynch is a spectacular Tatyana, both as a vocalist and as an actress. She exudes the childlike innocence of romantic dreams for the first two acts, and maintains an air of elusive grace throughout. Her eyes alternate between deep thought and the anguish of love and shame...
...other words, Fred Rogers knew that childhood, which we misremember as carefree and innocent, is a time of roiling passions, anguish and terror. His show, the first version of which debuted in 1963, was his professional way of doing what he had done as a boy in Latrobe, Pa., when he played with puppets to calm himself after hearing scary news reports. And perhaps one reason his death touched adults so deeply is the feeling that Mister Rogers left us when we could especially use someone to teach us to manage our children's fears...
...other words, Fred Rogers knew that childhood, which we misremember as carefree and innocent, is a time of roiling passions, anguish and terror. His show, the first version of which debuted in 1963, was his professional way of doing what he had done as a boy in Latrobe, Pa., when he played with puppets to calm himself after hearing scary news reports. And perhaps one reason his death touched adults so deeply is the feeling that Mister Rogers left us when we could especially use someone to teach us to manage our children's fears...
David Gordon Green's debut film, George Washington, was a painterly group portrait of preteen anguish. Now that America's most gifted young auteur is 27, he's graduated to kids in their late teens and early 20s but with the same desperate, comic, always human yearning to connect. Among an attractively aimless flock of singles, All the Real Girls focuses on two figures: Paul (Paul Schneider), 22, a Dennis Quaid look-alike with the rep of a ladies' man who "took 'em down and laughed about 'em on the way home," and Noel (Zooey Deschanel), a precocious virgin just...
Angelique, a pretty painting student (Audrey Tautou), is deliriously in love with Loic, a handsome, if married, cardiologist (Samuel Le Bihan). Flowers are presented, endearments murmured, trysts arranged. It does not matter to Angelique when romantic joy turns to anguish. She will stand by her man. It does matter that the tense, well-wrought story we have been watching is a total fantasy. It exists only in the love-addled imagination of its heroine...