Word: bittersweetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nice things about plays that explore old friendships is the certainty that things will turn out well in the end. Though most dramas dealing with real life issues couldn't get away with a script comprised heavily of maudlin reminiscences and bittersweet quarreling, plays like Mame and Same Time, Next Year generally manage to leave their audiences feeling tearful and rejuvenated. Something about the unbreakable bond that links old friends seems to draw a smile from even the crustiest cynic...
...long, lush picture gains momentum and confidence, it admits the viewer to a beguiling world where emotions can bubble out of low comedy, where familial friendship and carnal love intersect, where the dead exert their tenacious influence on the living, and a folk tale can transform itself into a bittersweet fairy tale. With Yentl, Streisand has gone for the emotional goods-to create a sweeping musical drama out of a tiny romantic triangle-and, miracle of miracles, she has delivered them...
...shelter behind the person of the superior white master. Sam refuses to accept the yoke of servility. As the tension peaks, Hal spits in Sam's face. The expressions of each of the characters fires the climax without a single line being uttered: pained horror on Willie's face, bittersweet remorse for Hal, and disappointment and remarkable self-control in Sam. "A long time ago, I vowed to try to do something," Sam broods, "but you showed me that I failed...
...newest Aussie import Lonely Hearts bridges the gap between Australian film ingenuity and universal themes. This bittersweet romantic comedy confronts the budding relationship between two middle aged people with delightful sincerity. The film is of special interest because middle aged loneliness is something few of today's filmmakers seem eager to deal with. And while the actors speak in a distinctly Australian drawl, the plot could have taken place anywhere...
...right, the pace is easy and the commute to work adventurous but tolerable. But native ruburbanites, who believe that they are insulated from the excesses and evils of the larger world, view with ingrained suspicion the invasion of aging Volvos, Cuisinarts and the owners who accompany them. The bittersweet confrontations between natives and newcomers across the vanishing cultural chasm of ruburbia are turning some traditional American beliefs inside out. To a nation founded on waves of migration, ruburbia is an inevitable ripple...