Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upon which "Household Saints" is based. One almost wishes that she hadn't kept going. Set in New York's Little Italy in the years following World War II, "Household Saints" is an exploration of the lives of three generations of Italian-American women that starts off rich in detail and comedy, and ends in an inexplicable twist of surrealist abandon...
...Household Saints" starts by revealing the small goings-on in a caricatured Little Italy with charming, trenchant detail. A butcher's son, in an agonizing move, bets his only ticket to the Met in a pinochle game with his friends; old women squeeze large, ripe eggplant, and tell tall tales of how they made soup out of clam shells stolen from the back door of a seafood restaurant; a sausage-maker chants an ancient rhyming Italian recipe while she kneads meat. From here, reality glides quickly away with no emerging theme to fill the void, and the movie, like Teresa...
Despite Marshall's stated openness, officers felt stifled enough to place a two-page ad in a student publication last week to detail 10 incidents in which police acted courageously but were not credited...
...loss of Indochina was a great embarassment to us." Later, Song bids Gallimard fairwell at the train station as she leaves to give birth to their fictive child. She tells him, "I will return three months after the birth of our son, as is my people's custom"--a detail she presumably would have let him in on earlier. And when the words "Paris 1968" flash onscreen, the filmmakers ensure that anyone a little rusty on their French history won't be left drifting long. Within moments, a drunk conveniently enters to explain, "There's Communist students rioting everywhere!" Screenwriting...
During his months in Europe, Merrill falls in and out of love with three Americans, and in and out of crushes on the natives. Merrill explicates these loves and jealousies in sometimes interesting detail: when two objects of his admiration showed up together at an opera, he writes, "pangs reserved exclusively for the gay shot through me--I was jealous of both parties at once." "My good fortune," Merrill also writes," was to stay in one place while the closet simply disintegrated." For many, the most interesting aspect A Different Person will be its recording of a rich, moderately open...