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...film focusing on a single day in the lives of 21 people is bound to have poor character development. All of the characters are one-dimensional, except for the surprisingly excellent Ashton Kutcher. As the film’s central character, Kutcher undergoes the most changes over the course of the day and gradually wins over the audience with his combination of charm and down-to-earth attitude. In a film directed by the menopausal king of chick flicks, Garry Marshal (“Pretty Woman,” “Runaway Bride...
...sentences to fuel the heavily psychological and minimally plot-driven narrative. However, the same characteristics that give Aciman his writerly credentials—his finely tuned cultural references and the delicate register of his artistic understanding—are trivial ornaments that cannot disguise the stagnant quality of the central love story. Though the characters are undoubtedly clever and sardonic, their emotional interplay fails to conjure the feeling of sublimation that Aciman is striving to evoke...
Before the screening began, Rancatore—owner of Toscanini’s Ice Cream in Central Square and one of the people behind ‘Food at 24fps’—said that the festival would show “movies that we thought other people would like or should see.” Fellow speaker and MIT professor Thomas Levenson added, “Food is a path into all of the concerns that each of the filmmakers might have...
...dirt track under the midday sun, Irrfan Khan waits at the starting line. The 42-year-old actor is playing a poor army recruit from a village in central India who runs just to get the extra ration of food allotted to athletes. At his first race, his character doesn't know what to do when the pistol sounds, so he prays. "You idiot! Run!" the starter screams. That spurs the soldier into action, and the naive confusion on his face turns into determination. Extras from the Bengal Sappers - actual young army recruits who live on the base in Roorkee...
...planned film about the relationship between Nehru and Edwina Mountbatten, wife of India's last viceroy. Khan says coyly that he is "very eager" to be on the set - but the project is on hold indefinitely until the producers can get past the unease that India's Central Board of Film Certification has with the idea of the great statesman romancing a memsahib...