Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...minded in doling out bad hands to workers and bosses. But because the theme is that the Industrial Revolution ground human beings into human beasts, Berri can't explore the very individual perfidy that was at the heart of Jean de Florette. Germinal, with its climactic mine disaster and bitter lamentations, is finally buried in its fidelity to its source...
...consequences of the Spanish invasion were of course profound and enduring. We can read about one of them in any recent newspaper: the peasants of Mexico's Chiapas province are rebelling against a landholding scheme that has remained essentially unchanged since it was imposed by the Spanish four bitter centuries...
...daydream ends, and a bitter taste enters the mouth...
After the war, Jim travels to Germany to visit Catherine and Jules, who have a young daughter named Sabine. When the threesome meet again, they all comment that nothing and none of them has changed. There is a bitter pang as Truffaut undercuts their statement Everything has changed; Jules no longer smokes and has taken to entomology, Jim has shorn his moustache and seems older, Catherine wears glasses and appears less radiant. Jules informs Jim that things are not going well, that he has not been able to hold Catherine, and that Catherine has run away several times. Jules...
Grant, who can soon be seen in Sirens and Bitter Moon, is every inch the blithe aristocrat. MacDowell imports her Groundhog Day sweetness to a role that is more a fantasy than a character. And Rowan Atkinson has a cute turn as a tongue-tied cleric. Richard Curtis (The Tall Guy, Blackadder) has stocked his script with transatlantic gags (How many times has Carrie had sex? "Less than Madonna, more than Lady Di"). The movie strains a bit to prove it's all a lark, but because the mood is cunningly sunny, and the cast is so relaxed...