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...Cannes festival was complete without some sexually explicit film to stoke outrage and fill screening rooms. Those randy days are long gone, and this year the only erotic hoo-hah was for this intimate German drama about, to get right to the point, naked old people making love - but nothing explicit, danke. Inge (Ursula Werner), a plain hefty woman in her early 60s, is more or less happily married to 70-something Werner (Horst Rehberg), whose idea of excitement is to listen to recordings of model-train sound effects. No wonder she goes for the slightly sprightlier Karl (Horst Westphal...
...wakes up, severely bruised, with two men asleep in her apartment. Only later does she realize that the first man (her lover) is dead, the second (his lover) alive but seriously wounded. Yet another intriguing plot set-up that goes nowhere, for this film quickly devolves into a prison drama as Julia is accused of the murder and discovers she is pregnant. Argentine law allows women prisoners to keep their children with them until the age of four. This allows Gusman (the director's wife) much latitude for scenery-chewing, which makes her another candidate for Best Actress. Her emoting...
...series of gigantic closeups of these beautiful faces. Lau's face holds do much emotion, she can break you heart just by being photographed; Maggie Cheung has never looked more ravishing than in her long, pensive scene here; the planes of Tony Leung Ka-fei's visage have the drama of great modern architecture. Leslie Cheung, wise, pouty, ever dangerously alert, binds this poetic, episodic film. A suicide at 46, in 2003, Leslie will live forever in glorious films like this one, which I'm happy to say is being released for U.S. theatrical distribution by Sony Pictures Classics...
...undergraduate, Diane M. Paulus ’87 used to purloin production posters from the lobby of the American Repertory Theatre’s (A.R.T.) Loeb Drama Center, then hang them in her Cabot House dorm room. Paulus will more than make up for her pilfering, serving as the next artistic director for the Harvard-affiliated A.R.T., the University announced Friday afternoon. The announcement comes after a protracted search that began over a year ago, after the theater’s board of directors decided not to renew the contract of then-director Robert Woodruff, whom some criticized...
...There's enough drama, comedy and heartbreak in this trio to keep festivalgoers satisfied until Sunday, when Hollywood gets one last chance to prove that old-fashioned adventure has a place in Cannes - when Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has its world premiere. (Check back tomorrow for an early scoop on Indy's latest crusade...