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More important, the British don't overcompensate by caricaturing the native milieu of these very American plays. In Hall's Streetcar the run-down New Orleans neighborhood where Blanche finds her sister Stella living could probably do without the roar of a passing train drowning out the dialogue every few minutes (a Streetcar Named Deafening). But nearly everything else in the production is delicate and understated, starting with Lange's touching and unfussy portrayal of Blanche. Toby Stephens (the son of actress Maggie Smith), an improbably fine-boned actor to be playing Stanley Kowalski, misses the brutishness (and the humor...
Into this milieu rides Gregoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling). Despite his lengthy name, by court standards he is a mere country bumpkin. His ancestral territory is a treacherous swampland, a breeding-ground for disease-bearing mosquitoes, and his people are dying. Gregoire is something of an engineer and he has a plan to drain the marshlands, for which he needs the help of the King. At court, he quickly discovers that access to the King is all but impossible for a humble man of the country. The only possible route is to scale the court hierarchy and win admission...
...Harvard milieu' may just not sustain an honor code on any terms. The self-reliance and self-interest of the Harvard student might smother an honor code before it had a chance to grow and thrive...
Back on the movie screen, some of the big names besides Bertolucci were disappointing their fans. Robert Altman's Kansas City, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson, shrouds the aimless bustle of its plot--kidnapping, murder and political maneuvering set against a 1934 jazz milieu--in an opium haze of dramatic anomie. Stephen Frears' The Van, third in the series that includes The Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash...
...able to talk Weaver out of his cabin, and hopes to do the same for the Freemen. "Its hard to tell if Gritz has the credibility to bring the Freemen out," says TIME's Patrick Dawson. "The Freemen live in their own little world, isolated in their own milieu. Randy Weaver might have what it takes to convince the Freemen to come out, but Gritz has a huge, monumental ego and a sense of destiny. He's there for the publicity, and I don't think he's going to have much luck changing their minds.. There...