Word: rictuses
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...failing. Oh, he can do engaging as smartly as he does stalwart or tortured, but he gets sabotaged by the cloying script. Even before a long, agonizingly unfunny scene that Skinner spends at the bottom of an empty swimming pool, the film's desperate smile has turned into a rictus. Don't expect to be beguiled by A Good Year. That would be like trying to warm your hands at an artificial fireplace...
...giant stooping under the ceiling of his Bronx home; the boy in Central Park, his face a rictus of hostility; the man in curlers (pictured here), with an expression at once vulnerable and defiant. To call these images arresting is to understate their ability to drag you on a bleak journey through the urban aridity of the mid-20th century. But steel yourself. If there's a current exhibition in London that can be fairly described as a must-see, it's this...
...marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder of his Bronx home; the boy in Central Park, his face a rictus of hostility; the man in curlers (pictured here), with an expression at once vulnerable and defiant. To call these images arresting is to understate their ability to drag you on a bleak journey through the urban aridity of the mid-20th century. But steel yourself. If there's a current...
...Take the cover image, for example. It depicts a scene in the book where Delisle visits the "Children's Palace," a school for gifted children. He depicts row upon row of near identical girls playing an accordion concert with rictus grins across their face, "as though the thin veneer of their smiles were proof that these young prodigies were flourishing here." Yes it looks horrible, but no more so than one of those frightening children's beauty contests made popular in the southern U.S. Or on a broader scale, Delisle does an outstanding job of depicting North Korea's relentless...
...says. "I had no doubt this was a great film." Palestine's first movie celebrity has reason to feel buoyant. For all its death and despair, Divine Intervention has a pinwheeling, tragi-comic verve that leaves a complicitous smile on the viewer's face. Or is it a rictus...