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Suckled on his mother's public disappointment, son Axel pursues power behind the scenes. He becomes one of the capital's gray eminences, "a fixer without portfolio" whose fusion of public and private business seems more like class privilege than conflict of interest...
...that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power. "Just, a Washington journalist in the early ?60s, writes from experience," says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "But there is no master clef to this roman. Protagonist Axel Behl reads like a composite rather than a copy. He has spent more than half his years in chronic pain caused by wounds suffered during World War II. His marriage to Sylvia, a wellborn New Yorker and poet, was a mismatch. Her parting shot before leaving is that Axel, former...
...well on Filegate, but he came out of tuck way too soon on the character issue, Felicia, and that closing statement was not a clean splash!") or figure skating ("Bud, all Clinton has to do is finish out the compulsories on his feet, and it'll take a triple Axel for Dole to beat...
When Uncle Leo makes a deathbed request to Axel, Depp's tears are over-acted, hearkening back to his "21 Jump Street" days...
...tense scene, Grace and Axel play Russian roulette. Taylor's character is eerily suicidal. When she softly says, "You don't say no to this game," and, after Axel refuses to play, "Okay, then, my turn," her self-destructiveness acquires a pathetically sweet tone. Even though the scene is emotionally effective, it remains incongruous in the context of the mostly humorous film...