Word: nair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nair '99 opted not to join the Mormon blocking group and instead will take his chances with falling two years behind his blockmates...
...Nair, who is originally from Bethesda, Maryland, said that Harvard wasn't all that different from home...
...contain or adequately characterize The Perez Family in a plot summary. For, writer Robin Swicord (Little Women) and director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala) have crammed their film to bursting with wayward characters and strangely arresting incongruities. Nair has called the movie "an overripe mango," and that's as good a metaphor as any for a juicy, messy, exotic and utterly delicious treat...
...would be unpardonable to reveal what happens, for "The Perez Family" has a nicely constructed and entertaining plot, but the movie's primary pleasures come from the actors and from the incidentals with which director Mira Nair has filled the story. The production design, the cinematography, the costumes and the music are all top-notch--the picture fairly bursts at the seams with wit, radiance and sensuality...
...Mira Nair's direction is superb. She has an exacting eye for detail, and an unerring instinct for what makes a film work. She exhibits an extraordinary control over the elements in the film, producing a work that is about exile, lost love, political repression, bygone dreams, and also about blossoming love, pleasure, warmth, and newfound hope...