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There's a new blend in town, and the locals are restless...
MODEMS ON THE MOVE: RESTLESS AND SPEEDY...
Those were tough words to absorb. Only weeks earlier, our first au pair had arrived from Switzerland. We spent one restless night wondering, Who was this young lady with the purple spiky hair sleeping down the hall? But we hadn't encountered any real problems, and at that early date we were still confident in the arrangement. Not long after, our au pair odyssey began in earnest. It's no tale of tragedy, like that of Sunil and Deborah Eappen. But it is, I believe, an all too common experience, one that laid bare the flawed nature of au pair...
...talented Ang Lee has directed this film about uneasy family relationships in the restless, promiscuous culture of the 70s with crystalline precision. As the leaders of two archly funny but distrurbingly bleak surburban clans, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver give refreshingly honest performances, but the film's ending sadly offers their characters no hint of redemption. The ice storm in this film, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...
...talented Ang Lee has directed this film about uneasy family relationships in the restless, promiscuous culture of the 1970s with crystalline precision. As the leaders of two archly funny but disturbingly bleak suburban clans, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver give refreshingly honest performances, but the film's ending sadly offers their characters no hint of redemption. The ice storm in this film, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow. --Erwin I. Rosinberg...