Word: drama
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...There is Phoebe, who knows the book cover to cover, thanks, at least in part, to her mother, who has been unsuccessfully working on a dissertation on perversions in Alice for long enough to have taken on a twitchy, Mad Hatter-like look herself. Then there is Phoebe's drama teacher, Miss Dodger (Patricia Clarkson), who approaches directing an elementary school production of Alice with the dedication of Bertolt Brecht. Miss Dodger wears her hair in severe braids wrapped around her head, which have apparently squeezed all affect...
...group of women gossiping in a hair salon hardly makes for gripping drama - except, perhaps, if the salon is in Sderot, Israel, and the women are reminiscing about life before an Israeli military blockade stopped the Palestinian men who used to commute from their homes in Gaza. "You remember Gingi the redhead?" asks one woman, as she sits having her hair blow-dried. "He used to do all the roofs. On Friday nights we'd cook couscous and invite him for dinner. We weren't scared...
...Camorra, or mafia clans, in the city of Naples, Italy. Released in Italy last May and winner of the Grand Prix award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, the film is only now making its way stateside. Garrone has presented a documentary as a visceral and brutally realistic drama, chronicling the life and times of Southern Italy’s infamous underworld. Fittingly, the film’s origins are not without controversy: Roberto Saviano, the author of the original novel “Gomorra,” had a contract put on his head by the Camorra and currently...
Soft-core porn has rarely been as wonderfully unsexy as in Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s thoroughly engaging drama “Serbis.” Rather than exposing the unseen underworld of the sex-for-sale industry, the film—shot in Tagalog with English subtitles—explores the complex moral conflicts that all-too-guilty pleasures cause in a country like the Philippines, itself conflicted by the secular influences left by decades as a Western territory on its actively religious tradition. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film...
House: Leverett Concentration: English Hometown: Dracut, Mass. Ideal Date: Anything involving the Big Cookie at Uno’s. What you look for in a girl/guy: High school drama. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Fantasizing about my days at Studio 54 in the early ’80s. Your best pick up line: Want to take the long way home? Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: This one time, when I was hooking up with this girl at BU... Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: It wasn?...