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...brink of fame after decades of frustration. He was also a dedicated satyr. The dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he would meet some years later, once said that whenever they were together she felt like "a nymph in front of a centaur." Though Rodin had a longtime mistress, Rose Beuret, and a whole string of others on the side, his affair with Claudel would have an intensity unlike any others. After the sex they could talk about Bernini and Donatello...
...Shoes,” two sisters, Maggie and Rose Feller, share nothing in common but shoes, both in their mutual passion for footwear and in their size 8-1/2 feet. Rose (Toni Collette) is a Princeton-educated attorney, short and kind of frumpy. Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is her party-animal kid sister, embarrassingly idiotic yet able to seduce any man she targets. Maggie bums off of Rose’s couch and they establish a somewhat reciprocal, primarily parasitical, relationship, in which Maggie updates Rose on the latest fashions (“1994 called—it wants...
Rose’s thinning patience for her sister finally snaps when one day, Maggie has sex with Rose’s lover, which Rose discovers, precipitating an angry fight. Maggie packs her trash bag of designer clothes and moves in with their grandmother (Shirley MacLaine) in Florida, who we discover has been living in a retirement center, though thought dead by the sisters for many years. The sisters’ icy feud forces them to develop independently, enabling each to learn more about themselves...
...implausible as the plot may occasionally seem, the director manages to suspend our disbelief through the charisma of the flamboyant Maggie and the more somber Rose. Collette masterfully brings Rose’s internal transformation to the surface—in her struggle to open up emotionally, she reveals herself to the audience, with brighter smiles, a more confident gait, and a simple abandonment of camera-consciousness. The result is a maturely developed character, deserving of our empathy (who doesn’t relate to bouts of ice cream-filled self-deprecation...
Though overlong and somewhat predictable, the film manages to combine feel-good sentiments with funny remedies for low self-esteem. Rose may not feel comfortable in a thong, but sexual confidence abounds the minute she steps into her black stilettos, reminding every person who’s ever gained the “Freshman 15” or felt irredeemably unattractive, that everyone has something to flaunt...