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...only one word of Kyrgyz, her native tongue: kuraj. Di Natale is herself something of a kuraj. Born 54 years ago in Genoa, she studied in Milan and Monaco, became an ethnosociologist (known for her monograph on Andalusian farm workers) and settled in Germany, where she lives with her husband and son. For Kuraj, Di Natale interviewed scholars of Central Asia, Stalingrad veterans, former prison-camp inmates, Cologne civilians who survived the war and a Tunshan woman she calls Kaja. Accordingly, Kuraj sometimes reads like an ethnosociological monograph, with exacting descriptions of Tunshan customs and ceremonies, as well as Lord...
...Roger Rabbit-style, in apparent despair over her creator's inability to advance the story. Other wayward women clot Clot's life. His ex-spouse ("for a good-looking woman she was beautiful") won't take his videophone calls. A housewife is entertaining a mysterious daily visitor, and her husband hires Clot to investigate. Meanwhile, magicians are missing the sawn halves of their lovely assistants, stolen in mid-act. Improbably, these trails lead to the doorstep of Manex Chopeitia, boss of the genetic-engineering firm that controls the national telecom and much else in the U.S.-Iberian Federation. Clot faces...
...decades he has been the anti-Bernard--a craftsman so light, lithe and likable he almost disappears into his best films. He was Debra Winger's unworthy husband, coasting on amiability, in Terms of Endearment; the -er half of Dumb & Dumber, with Jim Carrey; the Pleasantville soda-shop owner who is turned from a black-and-white cipher into an artist painting in glorious Technicolor...
Despite Moore’s impressive versatility as an actress (she exudes maternal competence here as confidently as she exudes sexuality in “Boogie Nights”), her Evelyn is, as her husband points out, “just too damn happy.” The shock she displays upon winning a bicycle is almost as affected as the unfazed façade she puts on for her kids when Kelly tears into one of his asinine drunken outbursts. Thus, by the time Evelyn finally breaks down towards the film’s end, it is hard...
...whether he is more jealous of his wife’s success or the attention she gives to the kids (he is usually depicted sulking alone in the background). But then again, the film is not meant to be a love story; at one point Evelyn asserts to her husband, “I don’t need you to make me happy, I just need you to leave me alone when...