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...Charllott Keatley...
Charllott Keatley's My Mother Said I Never Should is a family saga tracking the relationships between mothers and daughters over four generations. But if this description calls up visions of an evening of sick-making emotionalism, don't despair. The script steers well clear of any such dangerous terrain...
This is partly due to its structure rather than following a linear course down the years, Keatley depicts the four women's lives through a series of short scenes cutting cinematically back and forth across the generations. Comparisons between them are consequently made deftly and without recourse to heavy-handed statement or explanation. A scene where Jackie, the second youngest of the four, tells her mother Margaret about her first sexual encounter is followed immediately by Margaret's discussion of her approaching marriage with her own mother. The gulf separating Margaret's experience in the '50s and Jackie...
...Chinese are "quite interested in Harvard and they want to send undergraduates" to study here, Keatley said...
This year a small number of undergraduate and graduate students will be sent from China to the U.S. The majority will be visiting scholars sent for professional training, Keatley said...