Word: graphically
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...genius," maestro George Szell reportedly said about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. The quote describes comix artist Chris Ware as well. Author of last year's critically-acclaimed graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," Ware has finally come out with issue fifteen in his comicbook series "The Acme Novelty Library." After a year and a half of waiting, rest assured that his reputation(s) remain intact...
...have seen such stark French studies as Gaspar Noe's I Stand Alone, Bruno Dumont's The Life of Jesus and L'Humanite, and Breillat's Romance and A Real Young Girl (all of which have played in U.S. theaters and are available on video). These films are grim, graphic and not so much erotic as grittily naturalistic; they are closer to Emile Zola than to Emmanuelle...
...illustrate its story of two gals on the run. Manu (Raffaela Anderson) is a porn star, Nadine (Karen Bach) a hooker with a short fuse. Each woman kills a man, and the two go on a shooting and screwing spree across the arid French landscape. Yet for all its graphic excesses, or because of them, Baise-moi is a serious and original work. It starkly portrays a desperation born of disgust, and then an exultation at lurching into a brief, sociopathic freedom. The movie has something else: a charismatic performance from Anderson--she of the sewer mouth and seraphic face...
...from depicting the everyday brutality of life in Afghanistan, down to the family's bombed-out Kabul home, crumbling under the weight of too many wars. Parvana watches Taliban soldiers sever the hands of thieves in a packed soccer stadium, and some parents may feel such details are too graphic for 10-to-12-year-old readers...
...TIME: The story that you wrote is fairly graphic and realistically portrays the life of women in Afghanistan. How is it possible to get that suffering, that life across in a children's novel without disturbing the children that you're writing for? Ellis: I'm not terribly worried about disturbing the children that I'm writing for. I think that good writing should be disturbing and if you're lucky you're able to pull it off well. I wrote the book because I wanted to pay tribute and honor to the children who are involved in that situation...