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...Frank's associations with Proust are only mentioned here and there (he likes to remind the family that he is a renowned Proust scholar while he's helping them push their disabled VW bus), but Proust is implicit in the film's best aspects. Frank moves in with his sister's family while he recovers from a suicide attempt after a particularly painful break up (Frank's grad student lover ran off with the number two Proust scholar), and has cut himself off from the world. He immediately relates to his nephew, Dwayne (Paul Dano), who has taken...
...religious. He doesn't speak to anyone around here since his conversion." Other neighbors told the Sun that Stewart-Whyte had had trouble with drugs and drink as a teenager. He once worked at a hairdressers and a local electronics store and had converted along with his sister. "About six months ago he said that he was converting to Islam because it all made sense and had just clicked with him?. His mother was not best pleased about it but after he converted he seemed a lot calmer and more at peace with himself." Friends of Savant, who works...
...Sister Benedetta smiles politely when I joke that many of our fellow passengers will be calling to their maker when the plane begins its hellish descent. To avoid being shot down by Iraqi insurgents, the pilot must stay at 30,000 ft. until the plane is directly over Baghdad airport, then bank into a spiraling dive, straightening up just yards from the runway. If you're looking out the window, it can feel as if the plane is in a free fall from which it can't possibly pull out. I've learned from experience to ask for an aisle...
...fellow journalist and veteran of the nightmare landings. Even so, as we begin the descent, I move my hand away from the armrest. Looking over my shoulder, I see a familiar expression on the faces of my co-passengers: a mixture of fear and resignation. Sister Benedetta is staring up at the ceiling, her lips moving in prayer. I reach into my shirt pocket and surreptitiously rub my fingers over that laminated picture. When the Fokker's wheels hit the tarmac, 50 people sigh in unison, 50 stomachs unclench. But the relief is temporary; most of us still have...
...that layering. On the surface, this feel-good tale is about a group of mates from the down-at-heel western suburbs of Sydney trying to win a football tournament; beyond this, it's a story about Vietnamese refugee Luc Vu's battle to retain custody of his little sister Anne after the death of their mother. In one sense, it's formulaic film-making (the triumph over adversity), but Footy Legends has heart and depth. As Do, the 2005 Young Australian of the Year, has said, the film draws on his experiences of growing up in a grimy suburb...