Word: artsyness
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In Hay Fever, by contrast, there are depths beneath the glittering surface. Harris and a gifted supporting cast manage to suggest most of them despite Director Brian Murray's heavy-handed style, which emphasizes pandemonium rather than character study. The slender plot depicts the artsy Bliss family at play in...
How bad is this movie? Imagine yourself at an Adams House party, and listening the entire evening to the emphatically casual dropping of supposedly famous artsy names. This movie is hardly more subtle in its eagerness to describe Hemingway's galoshes and Proust's knowledge of South American parrots.
This film advertises itself as an "erotic masterpiece," and if you believe that, I got some real estate in Belfast to sell you. An artsy erotic movie should have some element of the human form artistically displayed somewhere in those crucial first 40 minutes. Instead, there are lots of sea...
The fact that Streep and co-stars Sting and Tracey Ullman are able to break through the film's hard crust of mediocrity is a tribute to their collective talent and bravura. Brilliantly manipulating a spectrum of emotions from pastoral innocence to manic depression to pulsating sexuality, Streep may very...
In short, despite some fine performances by Streep, Ullman and Sting, Plenty is the fall season's most bitter disappointment. Had Schepisi and Hare been willing to sacrifice the artsy elements in favour of a more straightforward, biographical format, Plenty would have been more than enough.