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...Bail is told by an educated Indian woman who has thrown her prospects away on an idler named Rajee. She supports them both by working in a shop, while he makes imaginary business deals in coffee- houses and visits his mistress twice a week. Rajee is arrested for some unspecified offense; the woman's father, who sacrificed so that she might improve her standing in society, mourns loudly over the disastrous course she has chosen. She remembers instead how her father and Rajee agreed to her marriage after she had poured kerosene over her clothes and prepared to set herself...
Within his social commentary, Kureishi leaves room for a bit of the fanciful. One very satisfying moment occurs when Nasser's wife, sick of his philandering, takes action and cooks up a strange potion against his mistress, charmingly played by Shirley Anne Field. This dreadful concoction makes the mistress' furniture move around and causes a rash to break out on her stomach...
Director Benjamin's gift for this kind of comic invention (first hinted at in My Favorite Year) is now finely honed. Long is the adorable mistress of frazzled common sense. Hanks poises between panic and exasperation with the kind of weird aplomb Cary Grant used to manage, and Alexander Godunov, the dancer, proves himself a gifted comic actor as an egomaniacal symphony conductor. They are all comparatively new to film, and that makes their display of old, all but lost movie skills even more cheering. The medium may have a future after...
...flawless revival at Lincoln Center, his jokes break up audiences as dizzyingly as ever. So do the wrenching emotional scenes of a boldly tragicomic plot. At the center is a lovers' triangle: a zookeeper and would-be songwriter, played with ingratiating and ultimately terrifying optimism by John Mahoney; his mistress, pneumatically impersonated by Stockard Channing; and his eerily manic-depressive wife, evoked with simultaneous goofiness and dignity by Swoosie Kurtz in what may be the best performance of the season. Kurtz barks and mewls like a dog, she wanders vacant-eyed like Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into...
...blond tough with a National Front past. His boyhood pal Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is the son of an impoverished Pakistani writer (Roshan Seth) and the nephew of a gaudy entrepreneur (Saeed Jaffrey). Uncle is a sharp businessman but unlucky with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation...