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Vigne carefully shows both sides of this close-knit life. He frequently underscores the stability and supportiveness of life in the village: in one particularly touching scene, a women called on to testify about Martin's identity lovingly pulls aside his hair to show a scar from a childhood injury. Such intimacy is wondrous, and somewhat disquieting, to urbanities who often don't know their next-door neighbors...
...quote a London human rights group official as saying, "In Viet Nam we are not confronted with the torture and political executions that currently scar Central America.'' Actually, many Vietnamese perished in the "reeducation" camps, where they were forced to labor twelve hours a day in malaria-infested jungles without adequate food, shelter or medication. The Vietnamese Communists have transformed Viet Nam into a huge prison camp with no human rights...
...camera loves Nastassia Kinski. Every feature of her young body comes to life before its lens. The wide, gray-green eyes send out satellite signals of precocity or perversity. The dewy skin holds, on the left cheek, a tiny scar, like a bookmark in a turbulent autobiography. The lips, extravagantly full, can pout or preen or tauten resolutely or open in an elfin smile. The long Botticelli neck carries the eye to a strange and strong body, with delicate breasts, expressive musculature and the strong haunches of a peasant girl or a centaur. Kinski is a true camera animal because...
...call Hanoi "the single most repressive government in the world." Though many organizations, including Amnesty International, are concerned about Viet Nam's human rights record, few experts would agree with Abrams. "In Viet Nam, for example, we are not confronted with the torture and political executions that currently scar Central America," observes a human rights group official in London. "This makes it difficult to draw the balance between worse and worst...
Sliding from pathos to pathology and back again, Smithereens has the judgmental attitudes of a Hollywood "expose" with little of the craft. For every quirky glimpse of street life (a ten-year-old boy running a three-card monte scam, a prostitute who will "show you my scar for $5"), there is a derisive stereotype of the working-class drudges who get in Wren's way. Wren is so determinedly self-destructive that it becomes hard to care about her fate. Nonetheless, Berman does her best to bring this tough, tart Irma la Douce to life. She and Brad...