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...started making new friends. Bella, the sexy brunet next door, stopped by from time to time. But she was so sensitive. If I said one thing she didn't like, she'd storm off in a huff. Another neighbor, Sally, was cool--she worked as a bungee-jump instructor--but a couple of days ago, she came over with Joe and started kissing him right in front of me. The nerve! I never spoke to Sally again...
That being said, there were three amazing things about the film. First, the two child actresses are phenomenal. Bella Riza (Bea) and Carrie Mullan (Lucy) remain natural and true throughout the entire movie. I haven't seen child acting like this since Anna Paquin in The Piano. Secondly, the male lead, Said Taghmaoui, was fascinating to watch. He can speak to the camera with a simple lifting of his eyebrows. And lastly, as I said before, the cinematography is impeccable--think of the breath-taking desert shots in The English Patient and add some mysteriousness; it's entrancing...
...catchy title--Hideous Kinky--but it doesn't mean anything. It's just a nonsense phrase that sets two little girls named Lucy and Bea (Carrie Mullan and Bella Riza) to giggling. Certainly it doesn't catch the patient, tender tones of this gently exotic movie or the spirit of the girls' mum, Julia (Kate Winslet). "Sweetly addled" comes closer to the mark. Or maybe "daftly dreamy...
...BELLA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES...
...Bella DePaulo of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, who has done several studies on lying in everyday life, notes that no one is totally honest all the time. "The tendency to tell lies," as Jean Piaget wrote in 1932, "is a natural tendency, spontaneous and universal." One of DePaulo's studies, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, showed that people told at least one lie a day, and that more socially adept folks stretched the truth more often than the less sophisticated. There's a reason the devil is always depicted as a smooth-tongued fellow...