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...sentiment is the way Roberts’ closeness to the narrative seeps into the film. The script, which Roberts spent seven years writing, is based heavily on his own tangled relationship with an absentee father, giving it a palpable authenticity that is only reinforced by the subtle performances of screen legends Walken and Sir Michael Caine...
...light. It’s harder to understand what impelled Chelsom to edit the dance by periodically slowing motion to a crawl—a technique better suited for action sequences in films like The Matrix. Whenever it speeds up again Lopez’s neck whips across the screen, evoking back pain as much as passion...
...Clouds, you realize the significance of the title: the idealism of political activism and the idealism of political apathy. From there, the movie goes on hammering you with that idea of idealism for as long as you’re willing to stay put in front of the screen. Head in the Clouds makes a feeble and heavy-handed stab at depth and profundity and, to its credit, it nuances the subject matter enough to show that things weren’t quite so clear-cut as all Nazis are evil and Allies are good, but it just gets...
...finish. But no matter how many times Duff clips her lines or awkwardly over-acts her most intense scenes, the film somehow recovers. Despite its reliance on ham-fisted elements to a garner a reaction, Raise Your Voice pulls off moments where palpable, genuine emotion pumps from the screen...
...result is an exhibition that includes several methods of printing—woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, screen prints—while embodying several inflections of what the process of printing affords an artist for her audience, the consumer. For it is with printing that the deflationary rhetoric of economics takes hold over art, that the struggle of the painter over poverty is cast in a new light—with the possibilities of reproduction that print afforded, production itself gained a stronger reference...