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...really French, yet not enough of a caricature to be funky. One feels as though they’ve just stepped into the France portion of the Epcot Center, with cute French food vocabulary that anyone, not just French speakers, might understand (bierre en boutailles, eau de vie and les vins) printed on bright plastic panels behind the bar. Everything is too neatly arranged to be real, the white bistro-style dishes and dishcloths for napkins too self-consciously chosen. They amount to a bistro-style restaurant rather than a bistro. Probably somebody’s bistro-themed kitchen would...
...needs new? Of the 16 musicals now playing in midtown Manhattan theaters, three are set in the 1920s ("Cabaret," "Chicago, "Thoroughly Modern Millie"), three in the 1930s ("42nd Street," "Oklahoma!", "The Boys from Syracuse"), and three, mon Dieu!, in 18th or 19th century France ("Beauty and the Beast," "Les Mis?rables," "The Phantom of the Opera"). Broadway tourists can visit ancient Egypt ("Aida) or Fairy Tale Land ("Into the Woods"). But it's tough to find either a musical that takes place in the here and now - "Urinetown" is a city of the future that looks like Pittsburgh in the Depression...
...watt institutional lighting." Is the lighting too low for her to see the adoration sparkling in his soul? Then he must voice it: "I know a palooka like me in unworthy of a groundbreaking extremist like you." As prison scenes go, this one is more noble than "Les Miz," "Parade" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman'" put together...
...more than horror-film sisters of Satan. (One literally carries a pitchfork.) Or is it to much to ask a committed filmmaker to offer sympathy for the devil? Is it possible, for that matter, to provide a lucid, nuanced portrait of children in distress? Yes, says Christophe Ruggia's Les Diables, about two abandoned kids - Joseph (Vincent Rottiers) and his autistic sister Chloé (Adèle Haenell) - searching for their home. Joseph is Chloé's protector and, if he were only old enough to realize it, her lover, with all the devotion and myopia true love entails. Harrowing...
...Les Diables/The Devils...