Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning are quite riveting, the result of some fine acting. Nicole Gallant brings a complex pathos to the role of disturbed, pitiful Monique; Elizabeth Marek is refreshingly brassy and carnivorous as the rotund Denise; and Eve Kahn, in hair curlers and a ratty blue bathrobe, makes a comic Aunt Charlotte, mugging as if she were in a French-Canadian farce...
...drove Eric [a juvenile defendant] and his aunt down to the station in my new Mustang [later stolen] through searing sun-bleached boulevards that reminded me of Florida, L.A., or Mexico, and reminded Eric of nothing, since they were all he had ever known. I think that the simple fact of never leaving the city must be one of the most insupportable conditions of poverty, but I wouldn't know...
...remembers walking along a London street one day and passing the offices of the Jardine Mathewson Company, renowned Scottish traders who do business in the Far East. Tang recalled that his aunt had worked for their Shanghai office before foreign firms fled in the early '50s and decided to ask if they could help...
JULIE CHRISTIE plays the modern Anne, who travels to India to retrace her great aunt's experiences in India. For Anne, Olivia is more than just a romantic figure; she also represents the key to Anne's own willingness to confront her feelings about living in the chaotic modern environment. Christie sculpts Anne into more than just the quintessential female of the 80's, striving for independence after an unhappy affair with a married man. Anne radiates intelligence; her ability to live in the present ultimately depends on her understanding of the past...
...plots, so cleverly woven together, mesmerize us for the entire two and a half hours. The climax of the film shows Ivory at his best: Olivia and her princely lover look serenely out of the window of their house, just as Anne peers in, looking for remnants of her aunt. Olivia and Anne seem to look straight into each other's eyes, but seconds later we realize that they are looking through each other, each caught up in the complicated web of their own obsessions...