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...Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood." That list spelled out the plot: damaged veteran, middle-age girlfriend, young daughter. The Wrestler never rose above fight-movie bromides, never dispelled my gloom. The character stereotyping makes Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, by comparison, seem as swathed in moral ambiguity as Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. The movie's serioso sentimentality is doubly strange since the script is by Robert Siegel, an ex-staffer of The Onion and co-writer of The Onion Movie. His old job was puncturing clichés; here he recycles them...
...Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood." That list spelled out the plot: damaged veteran, middle-age girlfriend, young daughter. The Wrestler never rose above fight-movie bromides, never disspelled my gloom. The character stereotyping makes Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa, by comparison, seem as swathed in moral twlight as Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers. The movie's serioso sentimentality is doubly strange since the script is by Robert Siegel, an ex-staffer of The Onion and co-writer of The Onion Movie. His old job was puncturing cliches; here he recycles them...
...DIED. Alida Valli, 84, intelligent, incandescent Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man, Luchino Visconti's Senso and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem; in Rome. A baroness who went into hiding during World War II to avoid being recruited for Mussolini's propaganda efforts, she received a career Golden Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival...
DIED. Alida Valli, 84, intelligent, incandescent Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Carol Reed's The Third Man, Luchino Visconti's Senso and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem; in Rome. A baroness who went into hiding during World War II to avoid being recruited for Mussolini's propaganda efforts, she received a career Golden Lion award at the 1997 Venice Film Festival...
DIED. MARIA SCHELL, 79, stunning, soulful international movie star of such films as the 1954 World War II drama The Last Bridge, Luchino Visconti's White Nights and, opposite Gary Cooper, the 1959 western The Hanging Tree; after a battle with pneumonia; in her hometown of Preitenegg, Austria. Schell, who sporadically withdrew from acting because she suffered from physical and emotional strains, was the subject of the acclaimed 2002 documentary My Sister Maria by her brother, actor-director Maximilian Schell...