Word: cinema
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...last line of Volver - "I don't know how I've lived all these years without you" - could be Almodóvar's testimony to his old friend and star. Whether or not he's working at masterpiece altitude, he remains at 56 the wonder boy of international cinema. Movies couldn't live without him. Babel's story line is even more complex than Volver's, spanning three continents and a dozen major characters, most of whom never meet one another. Yet their most innocent actions - giving a present to a stranger, escorting two kids to a wedding, taking target...
...winners. Meanwhile, we wanted to tell you about two movies: one that's among our favorites at this year's festival, Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, and another, John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus, that points, more clearly than any recent film, in a provocative direction the cinema could take...
...Handsomely filmed, in a rich style that enhances both the comedy and the pathos, A Friend of the Family is the best film in the current Cannes session. To me, Sorrentino is the young hope of Italian cinema. He doesn't turn 36 until next Wednesday, and I couldn't imagine a happier or better deserved birthday present than a Palme d'Or. Then he, like the residents (and sometimes the journalists) of Cannes, could party all night...
...Maybe this is just an off-year for international cinema. About this lineup, Cannes' Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremeaux might mount the usual defense you hear from film festival programmers: "We can discover good films, but we can't invent them...
...Ceylan came to the attention of world cinema three years ago with Uzak (Distant), which won the Grand Jury Prize (second place) and two acting awards. It was enthralling or infuriating, depend on your threshold of love or pain for emotional minimalism. Climates was much more involving, perhaps because it's simply a better, more human film...