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...kindly Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) becomes a psychiatrist. His possibly more gifted, but much more shadowed brother, Matteo (Alessio Boni), becomes a policeman notable for brutality, hasty judgement and grimly lonesome ways. We suspect he may come to a bad end, but we are not prepared for the shock and suddenness of its arrival. We're almost equally surprised when Nicola's wife, a gifted pianist, descends into the murderous radicalism that afflicted Italy during the "leaden years" of the 1970s. In tracing these two lives, director Marco Tulio Giordana effortlessly evokes many of the great events of Italy...
While Turner concedes that he uses a “sexually explicit script,” he explains that “we are just using it matter-of-factly, not for shock value...
Alaly’s work, however, doesn’t depend on shock value to draw audiences. She has contributed to the Harvard dance community as a dancer, choreographer, and administrator. She serves as choreographer and rehearsal director for the Harvard Ballet Company, and she is also a performing member of the Harvard Contemporary Dance ensemble, the touring company of Harvard’s Dance Program...
...opposed to works which drop a private vision into an environment which is alien, or upsetting or hostile to the expectations of the people who live in a place. … This works by shock and contrast rather than by harmony,” Babb says...
Alaly’s work, however, doesn’t depend on shock value to draw audiences. She has contributed to the Harvard dance community as a dancer, choreographer, and administrator. She serves as choreographer and rehearsal director for the Harvard Ballet Company, and she is also a performing member of the Harvard Contemporary Dance ensemble, the touring company of Harvard’s Dance Program...