Word: poignant
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...Sing for Your Supper trio (Luker, Gravitte and Sarah Uriarte Berry) from The Boys from Syracuse; Kuhn, an angel lost in hell, singing The Man I Love from Strike Up the Band; the male chorale Some Girl Is on His Mind from Sweet Adeline--a rendition so pure and poignant that it left the City Center crowd in silent rapture...
This joke, told in Abbas Kiarostami's luminous Taste of Cherry, hints at the spirit of Iran's vital new cinema: knowing, poignant, as simple and universally significant as an Aesop fable. Kiarostami, who is Iran's leading director (Through the Olive Trees) and screenwriter (The White Balloon), tells his tales with the grace and gravity of a wise old man in a village square. Taste of Cherry, which won the top prize at Cannes last year, is the finest of his shaggy-man stories...
...early years of this century. It features an unreasonably implacable villain, a talented and idealistic young man determined to rise out of poverty, and a tender love story that ends on a poignant, not to say tragic note. And it was unaccountably named last year's Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sentiment a couple of weeks...
...there at this performance, watching this happen." In response to those who fear that the project sounds gloomy, Merriman explains that her piece is meant to invoke a child's innocuous eagerness to grasp the concept of death rather than a morbid desire to linger on tragedy. The poignant images captured by Merriman are, in fact, quite uplifting somehow, even strangely humorous at times...
Mamet's fictive world was distinctive from the get-go. His plays, beginning with the 1974 Sexual Perversity in Chicago, wrapped Pinteresque menace in comically precise diction, like a gamier Damon Runyon. It was Jewish guys talking like Italian guys about life, death and, always, a poignant memory of the perfect woman, long ago or never. ("Bobby," says the dying cop in Homicide, "you remember that girl that time?") But at 50, Mamet has other concerns. The overtly serious work tends to be about Jewishness (in his play The Old Neighborhood and novel The Old Religion); the nastily comic, about...