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...Fiennes tends to withhold, director Meirelles likes to probe and prod a subject from a dozen oblique angles. That could have made for a schizophrenic movie, but this time, opposites attract: the actor and the director make a smart pair. The result is a First World story seen through the acute eyes of a Third World auteur--a film of nuance and power, flawlessly acted and an adventure to watch, with the aftertaste of an aspirin laced with cyanide...
...order, petitions Forculus, a Roman god of doors. "I will kill for you a fine white lamb," he promises. "Or failing that--if I couldn't get a good one at a decent price--then six pigeons." But the scripts resort to contrivance and coincidence to keep the pair at the center of events. In Episode 2, a confrontation that precipitates Caesar's coming to power turns out to have been caused by a bar brawl Pullo got into. It's all a bit too Forrestus Gumpus...
LeJeune’s mother, who was also volunteering, brought Lovechild a pair of white Birkenstock clogs, the kind worn by nurses. A few minutes later, Kathy LeJeune, 46, returned with a promise of a night’s sleep at a nearby church...
...have owned my favorite pair of flip flops (purple, rubber, from the Gap) for better than four years. Two seconds and I’m out the door. They’re summery. I could walk all day in them...
...village; most of the residents are the old man's descendants, who still live from the sea and their gardens. Only rarely does Gasa leave the island. He and Kumana, who lives on Ranongga Island near Gizo, were invited by President Kennedy to his 1961 inauguration. But the pair never got to Washington; they were duped en route in Honiara, the capital, by colonial officials who sent other Solomons' representatives. Gasa shows off a bust of JFK that one of Kennedy's nephews, Max, gave him in 2002. "Still young," says Gasa, looking at the coconut-green statue through cloudy...