Word: depths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bess Wohl's performance of Green Eyes is one-sided. Her character convincingly grapples with the poetics of existentialist fate and the maddening embrace of nihilism, but lacks the raw masculine coolness, control, and beauty that give Genet's character his depth and charisma. However, this weakness is compensated by both LeFranc's and Maurice's credible attraction for him, an attraction which renders Green Eyes more full than Wohl's performance alone...
...women have almost the reverse problem. While they have depth, they lack experience...
...late-1960s rock. Together, Paradis and Kravitz make a slick but shallow couple. On cuts like Your Love Has Got a Handle on My Mind, Paradis's slinky, coquettish voice lightens Kravitz's ponderous touch, but even their best songs have a predictable, surface appeal and no emotional depth. If there were even a whisper of originality, this pairing might have worked...
...exhibit. This Godfather may not look the same, but when the archaeologist in charge is Francis Coppola, the object is not literal reconstruction but further improvement. If only nature got as many second chances as movie directors. This trilogy has a novelistic density, a rueful, unhurried lyricism and a depth that, singly, the films could not achieve. Altogether glorious...
When the magic number is one--the third-ranked Crimson (18-2-2 overall, 15-1-2 ECAC) needs just one more win or an RPI loss to clinch the ECAC title--depth perception becomes skewed...