Word: melodrama
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...usually allow myself at a festival, where there is so much to see and write about. I saw the movie again at the public screening. The second time, not expecting a masterpiece, I found a film that pleased, impressed and touched me - a fully satisfying comedy-melodrama about the burden of motherhood, the power of sisterhood...
...this week, isn't a documentary. Instead, it is a fictional rendering that displays the 52-year-old Roman director's power to push at the walls separating film and reality, moviemaker and spectator, without suffocating in cleverness or self-indulgence. Moretti's knack for knowing the boundaries of melodrama earned him best directing honors at Cannes for his 1993 Caro Diario (Dear Diary) and the 2001 Palme d'Or for La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room). This year, he is again among the favorites to win the top prize for Il Caimano, a multilayered portrait...
...Whiting should have told a story dating back to 1940, when Arlen and Mercer came to her home (Margaret's father was another Mercer collaborator, Richard Whiting; they wrote "Hooray for Hollywood") eager to play a song they had just composed for a Warner Bros. melodrama. From the first bars of "Blues in the Night" ("My momma done tol' me?") everybody knew the song was gold. Inexplicably, it was left off the song list...
...everything from “Les Misérables” to James Frey to “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.” Playing the show as a farce drew out the absurdities just below the surface of Dickens’ melodrama. Indeed, this show wasn’t so much an adaptation of Dickens’ novel as it was a deconstruction of it. Nowhere was this more effective than in the dimwitted Lucy Manette (Chelsey J. Forbess ’07), who was the perfect incarnation of Dickens?...
...confusion. The clear Morrissey element is that there is no cleansing to the killing; it eliminates one problem, but he is not shy about realizing that there are no cure-alls, no really effective balms.Upon first listen, many are annoyed by Morrissey’s self-absorption and melodrama. But if you take the time, relax, and let his unique orchestrations flow through you, you might just want to join the faith.—Reviewer Scoop A. Wasserstein can be reached at wasserst@fas.harvard.edu