Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zentropa gives signs that the answer is yes. This existential melodrama was originally known as Europa, and Danish director Lars von Trier's ambition is that vast: Continent-wide. Set on a German train rumbling through the rubble of World War II -- but suggesting the recent chaos of post-communist Europe -- Zentropa plays like a hallucinogenic remake of The Third Man. A naive American, Leo (Jean-Marc Barr), walks into a web of political duplicity spun by a desperate provocateuse (Barbara Sukowa), a cynical Allied officer (Eddie Constantine) and lots of supporting sharks and werewolves. And where is Harry Lime...
What Thomas Cripps didn't have was the fun andthe excitement and the melodrama of each class,"Roberts added...
What Thomas Cripps didn't have was the fun andthe excitement and the melodrama of each class,"Roberts added...
...emotional anchor for all Zhang's films is Gong Li -- her face a map of cool insurrection, her figure proud and voluptuously Western. But Red Lantern offers other, more exalted orders of ogling. As it plays out its melodrama, it | radiates a ravishing color scheme; it delights in the symmetrical framing of gorgeous objects, human and architectural. For the Westerner, it offers a tour of exotic lands and customs: China in its last imperial gasp. How very sumptuous, you will say of the visual style -- though Red Lantern was made for an impossibly thrifty $1 million...
ARTICLE 99. Noble doctors have to break the rules at a veterans' hospital that is threatened by low funding and pompous bureaucracy. A vigorous cast, led by Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland, pushes all the proper buttons for righteous melodrama. It's just that this old Hollywood machine doesn't work anymore...