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...Kiss Me, Kate depicts a warring couple, actor-director Fred Graham (Joseph H. Weintraub ’05) and starlet Lilli Vanessi (Jean M. Flannery ’04), whose offstage feud affects the performance of a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in which the two co-star. Its top-drawer Porter score, filled with tricky diction and prankster flourishes, encourages performances that are expansive, even shamelessly theatrical...
...like a canary, claiming that Diana smuggled lovers into her home while dressed in little more than a fur coat. Sparing the royal family, Burrell is instead indicting Diana's blood relations: he claims that Diana and her mother had stopped speaking and that one sister was a jealous shrew. "The Spencers found Diana unacceptable in life. But after her death, they found her very acceptable, at $16.50 a ticket," he said, referring to the cost of visiting her grave at the family's ancestral house. Et tu, Burrell...
Rafael (Ricardo Darin) runs a prosperous, but crisis-ridden restaurant, his ex-wife is a shrew, his daughter and his girlfriend are variously estranged, and now his aged father wants to remarry his mother in the church wedding he refused her 44 years ago. Trouble is, Mom (the great Norma Aleandro) has Alzheimer's, and the church is dubious about the ceremony. Heart attack and midlife crisis are, naturally, Rafael's lot. Ours is pure pleasure as he works his way toward a more contented state in this wry, richly layered, wonderfully observed Argentine film...
...worth the wait. Bedecked in beads, with a posture that speaks of breeding and arrogance, she makes a grand entrance and a great impression. And she spits out her lines ("Mortals. They mean nothing to me now. They are only food") with a glaring regality. She's a real shrew and a true queen. This, we realize, is star quality--realize with a sigh, since Aaliyah died in a plane crash last August at age 22. The promise she shows here is thus both satisfying and sadly tantalizing...
...cleverly worked into the visual design, and to savor Hartnett's handsomely conflicted turn as a youngster of promise that rancor sours into threat. On your already groaning Shakespeare for Teens video shelf, stack this one above 10 Things I Hate About You (a.k.a. The Taming of the Shrew) and quite a bit below Romeo + Juliet...