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...corpse in the freezer and a ghost under the bed. And he's just getting started, since nearly everyone in Volver has a dreadful family secret she is keeping from someone else. This was the director's first film in 18 years with Maura, the earthy muse of his early years. Yet they fell instantly into perfect synch. The last line of Volver - "I don't know how I've lived all these years without you" - could be Almodóvar's testimony to his old friend and star. Whether or not he's working at masterpiece altitude, he remains...
...This is the first film in 18 years that Almodovar has made with Maura, the earthy muse of his early years. From his first feature through five more films, culminating with his international hit Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Maura always grounded the director's flights of cinematic and sexual fantasy. But after the breakthrough with Breakdown came a public breakup. After two films with Victoria Abril, Almodovar made five features (all terrific) with five different actresses in the lead roles. Bad Education had no significant female roles at all, as this one has no dominant males...
...MIHNUET consists of the Crimson Crooners, a choral ensemble, MIHNUET Ultimate String Ensemble (MUSE), specializing in instrumental string music, and individual performers that take it upon themselves to arrange their own group acts...
...with the Louvre, the Pompidou Center's National Museum of Modern Art is hosting "Tête À? Tête," an exhibition dedicated to all facets of the human head. By juxtaposing works like a Cycladic marble (ca. 3,000 B.C.) and Constantin Brancusi's stylized bronze Sleeping Muse (1910), pictured, the exhibit, which runs through Sept. 4, invites visitors to consider the head as the birthplace of thought, emotion and identity. Dominating the exhibit foyer is a giant sculpture, Cosmos (2001), by contemporary French artist Boris Achour. Made of dyed resin, the cartoonish noggin with protruding nose rotates...
...National Museum of [an error occurred while processing this directive] Modern Art is hosting Tête à Tête, an exhibition dedicated to all facets of the human head. By juxtaposing works like a Cycladic marble (ca. 3,000 B.C.) and Constantin Brancusi's stylized bronze Sleeping Muse (1910), the exhibit, which runs through Sept. 4, invites visitors to consider the head as the birthplace of thought, emotion and identity...