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...politics. The culture of blood feuds at a clan level is well entrenched in Gaza, and dozens of angry families are unlikely to forgive those who killed their sons, brothers and nephews just because politicians declare the conflict resolved. And since the Israeli withdrawal in summer, 2005, Gaza is awash in weapons smuggled in from Egypt...
...presents its story. It does not sue us for our favor. And it does not cue our responses. It trusts us take this almost silent little boy to heart at our own pace, in our own good time. The result is a movie that does not leave us awash in tears, but one that encourages us to think about what a close-run race the "Pursuit of Happyness" (oh, sorry, happiness) is, how often, the runner flirts with its opposite. We do not leave The Italian beaming. We leave it with relief, but with an ashen taste in our mouths...
...barks, a child cries, a telephone rings--that our mental time machines switch themselves off and deposit us with a bump in the here and now. We stay just long enough to take a message and then we slip off again to the land of Elsewhen, our dark networks awash in light...
...play his essential weirdness and it precludes us from feeling the slightest bit sorry for him as illness chips away at - but never conquers - his bonhomie. It just sort of happens to him, and Venus just sort of sees him through it, without pitying him - or leaving us awash in tears either. The script by Hanif Kireishi is witty without being self-consciously so, and Roger Michell's direction has a nice awareness of middle-class London, clinging to its dignity but just a little bit tatty around the edges. You leave the movie hoping against hope that you will...
MISS POTTER The movies are ever awash in cheap, uplifting sentiment, which is to the genteel audience what cheap, degrading violence is to adolescents: the turn-on that dares not speak its name. So it's somewhat grudgingly that we recommend Miss Potter...