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...memories of the 40 years they lived under communist rule - memories that have grown more affectionate with time. Speciality shops and some websites offer east German board games, 15-packs of the infamously rough Cabinet cigarettes, Be Ready condoms, even cans of Trabi Duft - fumes from the iconic Trabant car - and the very brand of hair gel preferred by former east German leader Erich Honecker. Young Berliners still gather at "authentic" G.D.R. parties, where guests don the uniforms of state organizations, swill Little Red Riding Hood sparkling wine and dance to ballads like In the East, which sold...
...Carmen Maura), dead these four years. Visiting Irene's older, failing sister Aunt Paula (Chus Lampreave), they hear the daft woman's claim that she has been cared for by Irene's ghost. This is dismissed as sweet dementia, until Sole, returning to Madrid, opens the trunk of her car and finds Irene, the corporeal ghost, scrunched up inside. Mom expects to "live" with her daughter; and Sole, ever dutiful, obliges, as long as she helps Sole in the hairdressing business she runs out of her home, and hides in the bedroom whenever Raimunda drops...
...conspiracy against King Idriss, smuggled men and weapons around Libya in a battered turquoise Volkswagen Beetle, which is a popular Libyan National Museum exhibit. So it was not surprising that when Gaddafi said goodbye to his visitor and climbed into the passenger seat of a waiting car, it was a brand-new, metallic blue...
...Fibonacci sequence, the art-history gamesmanship, the delving into Gnostic gospel lore, all the clues and miscues in his devious treasure hunt - are best savored by readers with a long night or a long flight ahead of them. They're not intrinsically visual or movie-dramatic, however many car chases the Howard version cranks...
...There might be a way to infuse cinematic juice into the tale, and Howard has a couple of jolting images: of Silas whacking a nun, and of the car crash that killed Sophie's parents and brother. He also manages an exemplarily creepy exchange between Tautou and Bettany, which for a moment raises the stakes to the level of personal affront. But these signs of violent life are rare. The flashbacks to the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages (shot in desaturated color) look both expensive and perfunctory - words that sum up the film...