Word: profounder
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Bosna! deserves its exclamation point. It is a disturbing documentary which unearths and presents images of the war in ex-Yugoslavia. Profound and terrifying, "Bosna!"s images speak louder, and more engagingly, than the voice of its narrator and partialcreator, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy...
...renowned Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was a man full of vitality, rebellion, creativity, and, very often, contradictions. His profound influence in Italian culture and politics reverberates still today, especially in the anthologies of his writings and films, critical studies of these works, and biographies which seem to appear annually in the United States. This year Americans have their first opportunity to see Pasolini's second feature film, "Mamma Roma," more than three decades after its 1962 Italian release...
Pasolini's difficulty in reconciling his fervent Marxism with his profound sense of spirituality causes the foremost contradiction in his work and one of the few constants throughout his career. Disillusioned with the Communist Party and the Catholic Church, he criticized both. Yet even in criticizing them, he clung to them, commenting on them incessantly in his films. This central conflict generates much of the beauty of his neo-realist-inspired "Mamma Roma...
...ability to be at the same timeextremely subtle and profound and absolutelyclear," Gaylord said...
...Shallow Grave" seeks to describe greed, but contains no real character analysis, and no profound insights into why ordinary people would behave like animals in the pursuit of a suitcase full of money. Boyle's final shot is haunted by the maniacal laughter of a flatmate as blood runs over the image of Queen Elizabeth's face on a bank note. It makes the viewer wonder if "Shallow Grave's" gory pandemonium is a big, shallow joke...