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Around the Bend...
...redemption of a long-estranged parent is hardly a novel plot in contemporary cinema; it has congealed to the point where every hug, tear and clumsy montage seem carefully choreographed. Refreshingly, Around the Bend, reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships that is only reinforced by the remarkably subtle performances of screen legends Christopher Walken and Sir Michael Caine...
...self-knowledge. They rarely succeeded, yet their struggle could sometimes ennoble them. Naipaul's fiction career had two peaks?first, in 1961, with A House for Mr. Biswas, the epic of an Indian in Trinidad who wants to build a home of his own, then in 1979, with A Bend in the River, the story of Salim, an Indian in Africa who tries to start a new life despite the anarchy spreading through the continent. Naipaul's protagonists were new to English literature, but his prose had the opposite virtue: simple and severe, it had a classical elegance that many...
Refreshingly, Around the Bend, director Jordan Roberts’ debut film, which won two awards at this year’s Montreal Film Festival (the Jury award and Best Actor for Christopher Walken), reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships...
...walking wakeup call rounds the bend at Brattle and Mount Auburn Streets taking it directly by the Harvard Square Hotel and The Charles Hotel. A morning runner halts his jog to get a glimpse of the sea of crimson and brass which has executed a hostile takeover of the highly-trafficked street...