Word: cousinly
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...piece has a good, basic comic premise in the puzzled response of the black-clad, soberly Unitarian locals to the exotic birds of passage who have come to light among them. This is nicely realized in the film by Felix, an unpretentiously bohemian artist, recognizing in his cousin Gertrude a fellow spirit struggling to burst free. The couple, played with lively grace by Tim Woodward and Lisa Eichhorn, provide the movie with its most beguiling passages, and their story, his winning her away from the lumpish minister her family intends her to marry, gives it its strong est narrative pulse...
House crew is friendlier than its regimented cousin across the river. In a varsity boat, oarsmen signal they are ready to row by barking, "bow, two, three..." House oarsmen are more akin to the Mouseketeers: "Brad! Kathleen! Liz! Liam...
From 1947 to 1953 Houghton served on the Board of Overseers at Harvard. He endowed a chair at the Divinity School in 1968, and his cousin Arthur A. Houghton Jr. '29 established the Houghton Library...
This is the latest in a growing genre of French movies (Going Places, Cousin, Cousine, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) in which superficially attractive people treat one another with casual, often thoughtless cruelty, but overlay this behavior with farcical charm...
...Director Diane Kurys in this her first film is large. She wants to break free of the artificiality of plot, the storyteller's hokum in which the revelation of character is only incidental to the tedious march of exposition, complication, resolution. Director Jean-Charles Tacchella's likable Cousin. Cousine managed this difficult trick; it simply showed two ordinary but agreeable people falling in love and taking delight in each other, utterly without benefit of story. Kurys tries for the same artful simplicity. She introduces an appealing girl of 13 named Anne (Eléonore Klarwein) and her more...