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Chrysanthou and Kizilyurek are excellent company, and it's a pleasure to hear two such intelligent and articulate individuals discussing the phenomenon of exile and divided identities. One is reminded of Latin American intellectuals during the 1960s and 1970s. However, the film's conceit--two boyhood friends reuniting to explore their bisected country--is a tad pat. Chrysanthou and Kizilyurek's devotion to the structured format of their meeting, and the intellectualizing of the issues presented detract from the emotional immediacy of the film...
Against the dark moody geography of 15th century England, Kenneth Branagh weaves a tale of political intrigue in his darkly brilliant film "Henry V." Taking on Laurence Oliver's classic 1944 version of the tale, Branagh brings us both the fierce conceit and urgent soul-searching of Henry's character just as gallantly as his predecessor. However, he adds a few of his own complicated twists by not only making the film fast-paced enough for modern Hollywood audiences, but also by fleshing out the full pantheon of psychological contours that make Henry such a complex hero. From the grime...
...film has its share of scabrous banter -- recombinant four-letter words galore -- but the conceit of Clerks is that foul-mouthed Jersey louts have elaborate vocabularies and pensive personalities. When Randal isn't shocking the frail with a list of porn-movie titles, he is offering such bartender wisdom to Dante as this: "That seems to be the leitmotiv of your life, ever backing down." Insults cascade into insights; obscenity snowballs into philosophy. Keeping the mind alert and the tongue sharp -- for the eloquent jerks in Clerks, that's more than a defense mechanism. It's a vocation...
...Crystal, who co-wrote the script with Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) and Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern) to head West again. Especially since Jack Palance's Curly, their comically tough mentor, was killed off three years ago. The film resorts to a faux ghost routine and a twin-brother conceit to get Palance up and snarling again. Instead of the Bruno Kirby sidekick, we have a whiney Jon Lovitz playing a ne'er-do-well brother, so at least somebody can be seen to be growing up, getting better out there in the Big Country...
...rest of the campaign flows naturally from this studiedly unstudied, I'm-O.K.-you're-O.K. conceit. The same low-key approach animates the print and TV ads that Coke is rolling out in test markets this week. The major innovations in this battle for the teens...