Word: gracefulness
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...Chadha introduces her viewers to both the Indian way of life and the Indian way of cinema. Essentially, Gurinder Chadha has had her cake and eaten it too; she has treated us to a movie with all the silly fun of Bollywood melodrama, while staying true to the understated grace of Austen’s original story...
Decent acting is the one saving grace of this otherwise unimpressive feature. Dakota Fanning demonstrates her acting chops and shows once again why she is Hollywood’s top child actor. She impressively holds her own against an actor of De Niro’s caliber. It has clearly been good training playing against all those hunky-leading man types (Denzel Washington, Sean Penn, and soon Tom Cruise). De Niro, playing against the Travis Bickle-type that first catapulted him to fame, is very convincing as David, a soft-spoken psychologist...
...Sparhawk sighed out haunting lyrics like, “The future is prisons and math.” After two more Destroyer songs, Low delved languidly into a song from their previous release, the dark Trust, called “(That’s How You Sing) Amazing Grace,” a delicate song that bares the gritty spirituality of the group. It was in the encore, however, that a request was finally acknowledged, as cries for “Sunflower” were satiated by a beautiful version of this classic from 2001's Things We Lost...
...court jester make shadow puppets--a rabbit, a dog, a bird--on the wall. Simple magic. So is a dance, by Noriko Takahashi, as the daughter of the Counselor's chief archer, that expresses the purest love through the choreographer's art and the dancer's plangent grace. Behind the scenes, K is dizzyingly complicated, with a crew of 165, including technicians who operate the gurney crane that moves the platforms and stagehands who prowl the 60-ft.-deep backstage area. But the technology doesn't overwhelm the action or the performers; it enables them...
...Mehta's life certainly has the raw material for a great novel: a stark mix of cruelty and grace and the sharp demarcation of light and darkness common to fairy tales. As a boy he is struck blind by meningitis; when he is 13, his country is divided and his family, finding itself in Pakistan, is forced to leave Lahore for India and to start over again. A special program for blind children sends him to America; there, a wealthy woman becomes his patron and sponsors his studies. Mehta's calm, unhurried prose captures the fable-like events...