Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPOILS OF WAR. Kate Nelligan glows as a feckless but fascinating mother in Michael Weller's poignant story of estranged parents and a teen son who schemes to reunite them. Now on Broadway...
SALAAM BOMBAY! An Indian Oliver Twist learns the ways of slum-life survival in Mira Nair's poignant documentary fable...
...cheap. But it is hardly less satisfying, with smart, authentic turns by the rumbustious Turturro and the gorgeously desperate San Giacomo. Shanley's title is appropriate: he wants to reconcile the comic-derisive image of Italian Americans with his own comic romanticism. And like almost everyone in this poignant fable, he gets what he wants...
...shiftless man's redeeming devotion. He is also, in the end, the Captain's unwitting Judas. Greene, 84, wastes not a word in distilling the fictional preoccupations of a lifetime, omitting descriptive padding and elaborate transitions. But stripped down, the narrative runs fast and true across that bleak and poignant emotional landscape that is uniquely, immortally...
...Salaam Bombay! In each film a bright Indian boy comes of age and finds the struggle for independence and maturity as daunting as it was for his country. Both are films of good intentions, but there the resemblance ends. Madame Sousatzka is a cracked cameo, Salaam Bombay! a poignant, imposing fresco...