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...screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga have investigated this chance-is-destiny theme before, in Amores Perros and 21 Grams. This time, the canvas is larger, stretching from California and Mexico to Morocco and Japan. The weaving of the three story strands is dextrous; the performances, especially by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a very harried married couple and Rinko Kikuchi as a deaf-mute Tokyo teen, are fierce and acute. Then coincidence keeps piling on improbability, and the viewer's interest sours into exasperation. Yes, bad things can happen to decent people. But compared to the calamities that befall the Pitt...
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 Sofia Coppola reimagines the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst as the Queen, above, got a few raucous boos, sending many critics to the defense of this lame satire, which may mean to make fun of emptiness but actually...
...herd. The younger son, Yussef (Boubker Ait El Caid), a better shot with a more reckless disposition, tests the rifle's shooting distance by taking thoughtless aim at a bus on the road below their mountain redoubt. He fires, critically wounding one of the tourists inside. She is Susan (Cate Blanchett), on a marriage-saving vacation with her husband Richard (Pitt). Because the couple cannot be at home in San Diego with their two young children, the kids' nanny Amelia (Adriana Barraza) takes them to her home village in Mexico for her son's wedding. Their driver is her nephew...
...tomato sauce factory in Sydney's Surry Hills. It's here Australia's finest director goes, as Shakespeare's Hamlet says, "to sleep, perchance to dream." Here, under Armfield's gentle, bespectacled gaze, Geoffrey Rush first leaped to life as Proposhkin in Gogol's Diary of a Madman and Cate Blanchett came of age as Miranda in The Tempest. It's also where Armfield dreamed up his 1998 stage adaptation of Tim Winton's novel Cloudstreet, the epic production that put his name in theatrical heaven. With 14 actors playing 40 characters over 20 years in five hours, the director...
...fluted sleeve of the Anna coat from his most recent collection. "He understands subtle things that add something to the wearer's experience," says Somerville, "as well as being flattering and beautiful and classic." No wonder dedicated wearers include such style icons as Naomi Campbell, Lee Radziwill and Cate Blanchett. As it happens, the actress was spotted wheeling a stroller through the show late last month, transported by the floating corsets and flying crinolines. One can see the appeal. Elegance is a rare commodity these days, and Martin Grant cuts a timeless...