Word: melodrama
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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...
...World War II. The film features a model family in which the father, mother and son make their respective contributions to the war effort. Director William Wyler simultaneously develops two themes: the devastation of the war and the reluctance of the British to forgo their everyday lives. The engrossing melodrama brings home the message of the effects of the war on the homefront...