Word: cecilia
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BOSTON--When Nan Ding '02 steps through the small green doors of her 59 Temple Place office near Boston Common, the Quincy House resident becomes Cecilia, a licensed talent agent...
...name and told partially in flashback from the perspective of several neighborhood adolescents who recount the events surrounding the disturbing suicides of the five Lisbon sisters. These collective narrators bring us into the world of the Lisbon's and the suicidal domino effect that occurs when the youngest daughter, Cecilia, hurls herself from the second-story window of the family's home at a party thrown in her honor. After Cecilia's death, the remaining sisters are cloistered in the house only allowed to leave for school, by their oppressive and overprotective parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon, played by James...
Another issue that leaves the audience unfulfilled is the dangling threads running throughout the film. The Virgin Suicides unfolds more episodically than narratively, leading the film to posit questions and leaving them unresolved. After Cecilia's death, two characters have visions of her a la Sixth Sense, yet nothing more is ever revealed or expounded on concerning these visions. Also, our neighborhood narrators introduce us to the Lisbon's sister and observe the girls from across their house across the street, but half-way through the movie this observation theme is abandoned, and the audience is introduced to a different...
...ABOUT MY MOTHER A Madrid nurse (Cecilia Roth), luxuriating in grief, goes to Barcelona, where she learns to live again by tending to creatures even more wounded than she. Pedro Almodovar's screwball melodrama has all the kooky verve of his early comedies, but with a depth and life-enhancing warmth that proves Spain's bad boy has reached a vibrant maturity. If this movie doesn't touch your heart, consult a cardiologist. You may be missing something...
...with dramatic cinematic technique as the camera in close focus follows an IV line. The sense of determinism continues to operate as an amorphous force in every subsequent scene. The next shot is a scene in an impeccably furnished apartment in Madrid. Manuela, an organ-transplant nurse played by Cecilia Roth (a luminary of the foreign film industry, with an uncanny ability to evoke tears) sits watching All About Eve with her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Esteban is turning 17 the next day, and his eyes seem bright with literary genius and joie d'vivre. The relationship between mother...