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Though its characters?? lives are clearly affected and perhaps dominated by the political persecution taking place, Flynn’s “Bent” still manages to communicate a great deal through daily routines, as Rudy waters his plants and Max recovers from a hangover...
Flynn uses the available space masterfully to portray the main characters?? journey from their apartment to a tent city and ultimately Dachau. One particularly effective moment comes during the first half of the play, as Max and Rudy sit in the center of the stage—physically close to their apartment, but clearly feeling displaced from home...
...surface, sure, it’s boring and depressing: Poverty, shattered dreams and the mundane happenings inside a floundering neighborhood grocery aren’t exactly a recipe for excitement. But while it’s not easy to get the cynic in me to genuinely relate to the characters??a college dropout, a roaming thief, and an old, cantankerous couple—Malamud does it, through a combination of honest internal dialogue and a continuously building sympathy for those with good intentions who inevitably fall on bad luck. When I stopped back home, I thought...
...Sing Now” is a fun few hours, but it can be difficult to watch when it tries to strike a serious note. A film festival audience favorite, the movie was originally titled “Shut Up and Sing” in reference to the characters?? annoying habit of yelling “shut up!” at the drop of a hat. Maybe some people who graduated from college in the early ’90s really do scream at each other for fun, but the yelling happens to grate on my nerves...
...does this, he is drawn into Jorgen’s household and learns the strength and significance of familial connections. Strong actors carry the film, which features frequent close-ups of their faces. Emotions run the gamut in “After the Wedding,” and the characters?? eyes, whether tearful or pensive, tell all. As the film is in Danish, the foreign -language factor could potentially scare away many casual viewers, but it would be a shame to miss this movie. Cleverly crafted and extremely well made, “After the Wedding?...