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...candy in this case. They play a young married couple (Sarah and Tom) who endure a league of post-nuptial traumas on their honeymoon in Europe. These range from mishaps during their induction into the mile-high club to the curious appearance of Sarah’s snobbish ex-lover Peter. Giving up the ending, however, would be a travesty, especially if audiences found the conclusion of Pretty Woman to be hugely surprising...
Zellweger stars as Roxie Hart--a doe-eyed jazz-age babe who goes on trial for killing her extramarital lover and becomes a media darling in the process. And, yes, she can sing--and so can her unlikely co-stars. Catherine Zeta-Jones' sultry Welsh purr masks a singing voice that is pure Broadway belt, and the moment she opens her mouth with the familiar first song, All That Jazz, the movie takes flight. Richard Gere seems more awake than he has in years as Billy Flynn, the slick lawyer who in one number plays puppet master to a chorus...
...words with her as he quietly stalked her when she was still vital. Now he chatters endlessly to her--mostly about music, plays and movies, including an erotic silent film, brilliantly concocted by Almodovar, in which a tiny, shrunken man is seen traversing the nude body of the lover who shrank...
...Benigno's opposite. He's a journalist who has fallen in love with a subject, a female matador named Lydia (Rosario Flores). Before her bullring goring, their relationship was the reverse of Benigno and Alicia's--relentlessly, often tormentedly verbal, because each was still emotionally involved with a previous lover. But now Marco sits mute and helpless by Lydia's bedside, articulating his pain only to his new friend Benigno...
Besides, it is not always so far from realism. Witness the sublime painting (circa 1616-18) by Cristofano Allori of Judith, attended by her nurse, holding the decapitated head of her would-be rapist Holofernes. (The model for Holofernes was Allori himself; for Judith, his real-life lover, known as La Mazzafirra). Far from being etiolated or artificial, it is almost as realist as a Caravaggio, though much classier in the opulence of Judith's robes...