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Playwright Friederich Dürrenmatt’s darkly comic tale of love, murder, identity and physics sparkles with absurdist charm thanks in large part to the production’s cast, which is stellar: each and every one. Alan D. Zackheim ’06 is somber and compelling as the solitary physicist-on-a-mission Johann Mobius, and his single-mindedly devoted yet star-crossed love interest Nurse Monika (Erica R. Lipez ’05) transcends the surreal and silly qualities of her character to turn in an occasionally poignant performance...
...can’t help but feel that this sequel betrays the delightfully subversive spirit of Helen Fielding’s comic creation. Admittedly, the raw material was less-than-stellar: putting aside the side-splitting botched interview with Colin Firth which for obvious reasons could not be included in the movie (having Colin Firth play Colin Firth would be far too Spike Jonze), the novel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason lacks the consistent hilarity and striking originality of its predecessor, Bridget Jones’ Diary...
...totally pan the film, but there are a few decent comic moments thanks mostly to Harrelson who seemingly takes on the daunting task of playing himself. There are also the occasional stunning shot compositions filled with lush, evocative colors that suggest a buried filmmaker with an eye for strong visuals—an ironic highpoint when one considers that the director was also responsible for such visual classics Money Talks and Rush Hour...
That’s a big claim, and Bloom writes about it as he does virtually every other literary subject—with eagerness, erudition, and a tinge of comic self-awareness...
...this disconnect, Boilet writes, both cultures share a mutual fascination with slice of life stories, as evidenced by the popularity of French cinema in Japan. (The name nouvelle manga deliberately echoes nouvelle vague, the French name for the New Wave cinema of the 1960s.) "Nouvelle manga" refers to any comic that taps into this mutual appreciation. To that end Fanfare/Ponent Mon's first book was Boilet's own "Yukiko's Spinach," an erotic amuse bouche done in a photo-realist style about the author's brief affair with a Japanese woman...