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...good thing that most of the characters in Tsai Ming-liang's films seem to be compulsive smokers. The acclaimed Taiwan-based director is the master of the long, slow reveal that keeps camera movement to an absolute minimum. Just as frozen are his actors, who sit or stand or lie with that familiar art-house look of longing in their eyes, which often resembles nothing so much as a slight case of constipation. Were it not for the constant lighting of cigarettes and the smoke wreaths wafting through the frame, Tsai's scenes would be hard to distinguish from...
...showed the three survivors, Salvatore Stefio, Umberto Cupertino and Maurizio Agliana, perched on a couch in what looked like a living room. They had been dressed in clean white Arab clothes, appeared healthy and composed and had a spread of local cuisine before them. Stefio looked at the camera and said, "We haven't suffered any physical harm...
...sculptures, Night, a curiously muscular, semiclad woman carved in the 1520s for the crypt of Giuliano de' Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. Gazing at David, one can't help but think of Andy Warhol's Sleep - the 1963 work in which he trained his 16-mm camera on the slumbering form of the poet John Giorno, coupled, perhaps, with the rich hues and dark settings of a Caravaggio. But never mind. You can dress it up any way you please, but David is nothing more than an hour's footage of a really handsome, really famous footballer...
Despite the script’s flaws, the cinematography often effectively produces suspense where the plot is lacking. Typical yet effective camera angles as well as vivid colors and blurred effects bring the night terrors that the young boy experiences to life and creates picturesque moments that fall short of redeeming the film...
...doesn’t-know-it in that aw-shucks way photographer, to set things right. Garner’s performance may lend itself to a Julia Roberts reference or two—both have the full-lipped, hearty laugh and smile perfectly complemented by a suitably charming on camera presence. Though the plot could have been written during a middle school sleepover, the movie is cute for cute’s sake. If nothing else, the pleasantly sappy coupling of Garner and Ruffalo is just enough to make the zits start to heal, the teeth straighten, the bra fill...