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...conceals the murder by cleaning the blood from the floor and hiding the body. Meanwhile, an element of the supernatural appears in the form of Irene (Carmen Maura). She is the deceased mother of hardworking Raimunda and kind Sole (Lola Duenas), as well as the sister of senile Paula (Chus Lampreave). Irene joins Sole after Aunt Paula’s passing and attempts to address issues left unresolved before her death. Almodovar celebrates women. He is a master at portraying the nuances of the fairer sex, made evident in previous films such as “All About My Mother?...
...from what we learn later in the film) of atonement. Among the mourner-scrubwomen are two sisters, Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) and Soledad (Lola Dueñas), tending the grave of their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), dead these four years. Visiting Irene's older, failing sister Aunt Paula (Chus Lampreave), they hear the daft woman's claim that she has been cared for by Irene's ghost. This is dismissed as sweet dementia, until Sole, returning to Madrid, opens the trunk of her car and finds Irene, the corporeal ghost, scrunched up inside. Mom expects to "live" with...
...invitation to the U.S. National Team as well. At the time, when I heard everyone talk about how upside-down the Olympic year makes the national title picture, I did not really get it. I could not fathom women’s hockey without the Ruggieros and the Chus out there on the ice.Well, last year, Corriero proved that there is depth and skill beyond beyond that upper tier. In fact, as each year goes on, more and more schools add a varsity female program and more and more teams start running with the top dogs.So what?...
...scrape the depths to survive, aided by just enough street humor to make life tolerable. With its menagerie of losers leavened by twisted romance, Hollywood Hong Kong is a lighter film, literally, than its predecessors. By day the sun shines through the tin roofs and sultry shacks of the Chus' shantytown in the New Territories, and by night a lunar white shines from the modern apartments of nearby Hollywood Plaza. That's where the enterprising, Shanghai girl Tong Tong (Zhou Xun) lives, dreaming of the real Hollywood, before she jolts the Chus into life, then sets them burning...
...with comic characters, not all manage watchable performances. Chin's gruff, soulful Chu is a match for Tong Tong, and Leung earns kudos as the least annoying fat kid in recent Chinese cinema. But Ho's Ming does little more than sweat. Wong's manic energy nicely counters the Chus' torpor, but his strangled-cat tone deserves an even worse punishment than the film finally delivers...