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...getting briskly to her induction into geisha life, the film announces its theme quickly and smartly. It expresses in winsome or searing glances what the novel took chapters to explain. The movie offers a little sympathy and backstory to the villainess Hatsumomo by giving her a scene with the lover whom geisha rules forbade her to have. And it gives Sayuri a fabulous dance scene that shows off director Rob Marshall's theater background...
...donning his hat to ward off anyone coming too close. Del Mar doesn't have too much to say, but he's got a Russian novel's worth of body language, most of it about loss. "If you can't fix it," he tells Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), his lover, in a rare moment of reflection about his life, "you've got to stand...
...ultimate heterosexual fantasy. In Casanova, out Christmas Day, directed by Hallstrom, he's the swashbuckling charmer for whom his fans have been waiting. It's a very Disney Casanova, with minimal sex and maximal caper (Hot-air balloons! Masked balls! Duels! Mistaken identities!). Ledger, who plays the legendary lover, opposite Sienna Miller, is not too proud to admit that the appeal of the movie lay more in a 120-day shoot in Venice, where he could unwind from Brokeback, than in any nuances of script (although the part is deceptively hard, given the number of identities Casanova assumes). It will...
...accomplice role from “A Simple Plan”), who may be playing on Charlie’s insecurities for his own agenda.Arglist’s insecurities may remind viewers of the “Cusack Character,” the forlorn puppy dog lover boyfriend that has become inextricably tied with the actor since his Lloyd Dobler role in “Say Anything...” But Cusack rejects Charlie’s place in this long line of lovable losers: “He’s definitely a loser, but I don?...
...actors in their own right, conveying the emotions and personalities of the characters with their body language as they interpreted the spoken words of the stage with their hands. When a lesbian worker named Kat, played by Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08, rebukes her would-be lover Poppy (Edward Hichez), the interpreter translating Kat’s part actually looked vividly angry while the interpreter translating Poppy’s part looked suitably pathetic. Later, when Kat described her sexual plans for the night to her lesbian lover “B,” played...