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...moods with little or no cause. The middle sister Masha (Molly Ward) especially exaggerates her small joys and sorrows. Such stylized acting, along with the dramatic lighting that illuminates much of the play, creates a sense of fantastic strangeness that contrasts with the traditional perception of Chekhov as a realist. Although the choice to stylize the text in this way is interesting, the embellishments can become so far-fetched that the work becomes inaccessible. At these times, Lupa seems more interested in seeing how far he can stretch the work in absurdist directions than in carefully coaxing sympathy...
...MOVIE IS BETTER: Proulx was a realist, not much interested in the glories of mountain landscapes. Director Ang Lee is a romantic, and his realizations of the high country where the cowboys herd sheep and fall in love have a transformative effect on the story. He makes you believe those rough, crude guys might just possibly achieve passion and tenderness in those breathtaking locales...
...which Mahler responds, “My name is Robert.”) The sometimes clumsy script is ably repaired by the quality of the interaction between the two players who are truly exchanging essential ideas, Kawaller’s touchingly idealistic Sophie and Polk’s gruff realist Mohr...
...crooked he seems straight. As the former lover of Hugo Weaving's ex-AFL footballer junky (in turn the confidant of a strung-out video-store proprietress played by Cate Blanchett) he's the toxic puppeteer of Rowan Woods' eye-opening Cabramatta-set crime thriller. Woods, the edgy social realist director of The Boys (1998), saw it as a challenge to reinvent the star. "He's nearly always the distinguished gent," says Woods, "as opposed to this, where he's - how can I describe...
...never faced a challenge like this one. Although trained as a foreign policy realist who has argued the U.S. should act based on a cold calculus of national interest, rather than to advance ideological goals, Rice has more recently embraced Bush's gauzy belief that pursuing the ambitious aim of bringing political reform to the Arab world represents the best possible salve against the threat of Islamic terrorism. "What are your choices?" she asks. "Your choices are: to somehow reinstitute control, which would be against our principles, or to have faith in the democratic enterprise as one actually that...