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Star Quality Broken Embraces could be the title of nearly any Almodóvar film. His people are infirm creatures looking for a little hug that can be therapeutic or redemptive. The paraplegic cop played by Javier Bardem in Live Flesh doesn't shrug off sexual desire just because he...
The mood and tone here are less bustling than in earlier Almodóvars. This time his energy went into the dense plot scheme, with its duplication of characters and family dynamics. One thing hasn't changed: the director's skill at bringing out the star quality of his performers...
Why has Houben's method of communication caused controversy? "Facilitated communication," as it's called, is a hotly disputed method. Studies on its use in autistic patients have shown that caregivers - often in an earnest desire to help the patient - are sometimes themselves controlling the typing. Some of the news...
With themes like this, the movie could have gotten bogged down in a desire to convey profundities. But Pippa is too good-humored and lovingly wise to be pretentious. Suky is a tragic figure, but Bello is very funny. Arkin looks silly in his flashback hairpiece, but he gives Herb...
Brazil's interest in the Iran nuclear standoff is not based only on Lula's desire to mediate global conflict, however; Brazil is an emerging nuclear-energy nation with two reactors in operation, a third near completion, and with plans to build between four and eight more nuclear power plants...