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...about Crisera. A California state flag hangs in a corner: she's from San Francisco. A wall covered with pictures of babies and children's art announces that she loves kids. Ruth Orkin's poster of "An American Girl in Italy" is plastered to another wall: she's Italian-American...
...going," says Francine Prose, author of the novel upon which "Household Saints" is based. One almost wishes that she hadn't kept going. Set in New York's Little Italy in the years following World War II, "Household Saints" is an exploration of the lives of three generations of Italian-American women that starts off rich in detail and comedy, and ends in an inexplicable twist of surrealist abandon...
This is, of course, all very subtle, and one has difficulty overlooking Tracey Ullman's coarse performance as an Italian-American butcher's wife. Aside from the fact that she looks like a man in a bad wig, she struggles to conceal her cockney accent and is inexpressive at best. Lili Taylor as Teresa tries too hard to convey a lowly monastic plainness, ending up as flat as Ullman. Judith Malina plays the matriarch Carmela as charmingly as an unfed pit-bull...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "Household Saints" at 3, 5:20, 7:40 and 10 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 12:40. Through Thursday, Nov. 11. This film examines the changing American culture through three different generations of Italian-American women, and each woman's unique relationship to faith and family tradition...
Chou responded that Asian-American literature is a "subdivision [of American literature], analogous to Puerto Rican-American, Jewish-American, or Italian-American literature...