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(3 of 3) Another adult twist on a child's fable is Pan's Labyrinth. Writer-director Guillermo Del Toro flawlessly laces a Lewis Carroll-like fantasy of an underground kingdom into the realistic story of a sadistic officer (Sergi López) in Franco's Spain and a wily...
Babel Another chance-is-destiny parable from Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams), the drama stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a couple tested by near tragedy. The film's ambition is imposing, the acting often illuminating, the pileup of coincidences finally exasperating. Marie Antoinette...
Poor Justin was obliged to stay for the whole thing (actually 2hr.35min.). And truth to tell, a few critics who put themselves through the entire ordeal whispered the word materpiece, if only to annoy the rest of us - because for most reviewers, this static film about the Lisbon lower depths...
Coppola was told of the boos at the post-screening press conference, where she was flanked by stars Kirsten Dunst Marie) and Jason Schwartzman (Louis XVI) - and, seated just off to the side, her father Francis Coppola. She acknowledged that she was disappointed by the news, but added, in true...
So you may dismiss the report that the film, which ends before the beheading of the Queen, resulted in the lynching of its director. Indeed, the boos may have helped Coppola's film, creating a controversy that demanded the taking of sides. Nothing stirs impassioned defense like an attack, real...