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...Lily lives with her widowed father (Paul Bettany) and black housekeeper, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), in a small, dry, dusty town in South Carolina during the height of the Civil Rights movement. The relationship between the three is all too familiar: Lily’s father is abusive and distant while Rosaleen acts as a surrogate parent. After a violent clash with several townspeople over new rights granted by the Civil Rights Act, Rosaleen ends up in the hospital. Lily, who is in desperate need of escape from her father, hatches a scheme for the pair to run away.The movie begins...
...dancers. Yet for all this innovation, it’s not relatable. It’s neither real nor magical. There is neither a Patrick Dempsey nor a quixotic Prince Charming; instead a rather bored, whimsical type broods in their place. There is no happily-ever-after in a distant enchanted castle—Cinderella and her love are married in a quaint afternoon ceremony in their backyard garden, content to live a quiet life among its various botanical wonders. Something was lost in translation...
...sparkle of coming back to Cambridge fizzles and Thanksgiving Break is but a distant ship on the horizon, summer thoughts naturally begin to consume my mind. But rather than reliving the debaucherous Fourth, I return to that remarkably unremarkable day—July 5th—that I made exceptional with a group of friends in San Francisco, my summer home...
...story lacks in polish, it makes up for in mood. Reading a Petterson novel is like falling into a northern landscape painting--all shafts of light and clear, palpable chill. The narrator and her brother Jesper grow up in this setting, on a farm in Denmark in the 1930s. Distant from their parents, they find happiness in each other, and as the narrator grows from tagalong sister to adolescent, Petterson gives their relationship a delicate physical dimension...
...many, I find so much of that certain kind of folk—songs of unrealized or unrealizable ideas, only appreciated by the sexagenarians who penned them and the sophomore liberal art students longing for their own Old World Underground—so beguilingly and simultaneously naïve, distant, square, and off-putting...