Word: loving
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...Johan - father of six, devoted husband, devout believer - has fallen in love with another upright Mennonite, Marianne (Maria Pankratz). Can he end the affair? If not, what will the repercussions be for his family, his community, his beliefs...
...participants. The director also constructs elaborate pairs of sequences, one toward the beginning of Silent Light, the other toward the end. The opening dawn is the prelude to the closing dusk (which consumes the film's last five minutes); a church service precedes a wake; a passionate kiss of love is followed by the restorative kiss of life...
...honor who should be the bride (or groom). And even though the catfighting goes over the top, the notion that a passionate female friendship can turn ugly in a heartbeat is, sadly, realistic. Women friends have a sharp sense of one another's soft underbelly, and what we love about our best girlfriends can easily be turned into ammunition following a betrayal. We know how to hurt one another...
Forget Athens and Sparta, Sodom and Gomorrah, Dallas and Fort Worth. Of all the cities whose destinies have been twinned for one reason or another, few can match the intensity of the love-hate relationship between Paris and New York. For much of the past century, the City of Light and the City That Never Sleeps have competed feverishly for leadership in culture, couture and coolness, even as they freely exchanged influences and expatriates...
...rises are represented in photos, ironwork and hunks of decoration - especially Rockefeller Center, the 22-acre (nine hectare) living museum of Art Deco that lies 52 blocks due south of the exhibit. The French government, not coincidentally, was one of the center's first tenants. Indeed, France fell in love with the skyscraper, and the show includes plans for (mercifully unbuilt) Parisian versions that somehow lacked the energy of their New York counterparts...