Word: romanticized
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IN THE SPRING OF 1992, I saw the film "Cinema Paradiso" for the very first time. It made working at a movie theater seem like a marvelous, quaint and romantic experience, with a big pot of gold at the end. The way I read it, "Cinema Paradiso" said that if...
"I looked out at the sea," he writes. "Sometimes the place was so beautiful it made you want to cry almost. It was like seeing some young, lovely woman on the arm of a short, sleazy general. The soft breeze off the sea; the intermittent light of cars, winking along...
The romantic in question, and the narrator of this novel, is an American photographer named Richard. In the course of the few years covered in the novel's scope, starting in 1987, he makes five visits to Cuba, and in each one he becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries...
He is joined by an extremely large cast of Cabotians, led by Amy Dahlberg as Sarah Brown and Joel Kurtzberg as Sky Masterson. While the romantic leads sing with determined earnestness, their roles do not provide the comic latitude that some of the smaller parts allow. Benjamin Toro, as the...
So everything comes out all right in the end, which is not exactly startling. What is startling is how well While You Were Sleeping recaptures the true spirit of the best kind of modern fairy tale--classic romantic comedy. This is something Hollywood has been trying hard, and failing miserably...