Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Square businessmen closed up shop early yesterday, taping windows and reinforcing storefronts. The worst damage occurred at the Coop, where the thirty-foot metal "Harvard Cooperative Society" sign crashed to the street at 1:30 p.m. No one was hurt...
...serious problems with his role still remain. On the plus side, he never plays down to Molina; even at the beginning, sporting the makeup of an old whore, speaking his lines deliberately with slow, self-indulgent relish, Hurt never minces and he never seems embarrassed...
Physically, though, he seems out of place, too big and awkward for Molina's refined sensibility. And what's this Yankee-manque doing in South America anyway? You keep expecting someone to translate his dialogue. Hurt as the "queen" appears studied: he doesn't let you forget the effort his technique requires...
That is the least of his worries, however. Where the movie seems thinnest is in its symbolic attempt to weld Hurt's stagey character to Babenco's overriding theme about cinema as a kind of mental panacea...
...much for courageous filmmaking. Kiss of the Spider Woman deserves credit for trying, though, and for the affecting chemistry between Hurt and Julia. It fails in trying to overglamorize the pair's love; it does not appear convincingly sufficient to cause Molina's turnaround upon leaving prison...