Word: chekhovs
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...more: Ludivine Sagnier to the rescue. Voluptuous and pouty, Sagnier has her limitations as an actress - she doesn't radiate so much as glower - but just now she's everywhere in French movies, including two in the Cannes competition. In La Petite Lili, Claude Miller's summery adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, she disrupts the egos and libidos of all she meets. In François Ozon's Swimming Pool, she antagonizes and arouses older novelist Charlotte Rampling by sunbathing in the nude and bringing louts home to stay over. Neither film is a masterpiece, but both address...
...Unlike many of its neighbors, Nepal was never colonized by the English or their language, but Upadhyay is hardly operating in a cultural vacuum. One of the first Nepali writers to publish fiction in the West, he has been called the "Buddhist Chekhov." He's not Anton Chekhov, but he is Buddhist, and the influence of the religion?observant, detached, cyclical?is richly apparent. Cycles are everywhere. Ramchandra's passion waxes and wanes. Even as he descends into recrimination, he sees his maturing teenage daughter succumbing to the same dangerous passion that undid him, and he is powerless to stop...
...Life," a star vehicle for Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. (Would you import the Irishman Brian Friel to join this exalted company? I wouldn't, quite, but Friel had a new piece too: "Afterplay," a slight memory-play with old charmers John Hurt and Penelope Wilton as characters from Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" and "Three Sisters...
...With Chekhov, you always expect it to be kind of staunch, but it was very intelligent and funny,” said Amanda Brasher, a senior at the Boston Conservatory. “It was very accessible. That’s what will bring the public in to see these shows...
Next up, Watson will produce a film she co-wrote with her husband, screenwriter Jack Waters. At the moment, she's back home in London, appearing in the Donmar Warehouse productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. "After Red Dragon, the biggest, most Hollywood-est movie I've ever been in, this opportunity came up," she says. "To be able to play Viola and Sonya in the same breath--it's good." Best of all, she doesn't have to share a dressing room with a cannibal. --By Jess Cagle