Word: somberly
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...Kislik observes that the somber side, the part of Egashira that has dealt with HIV and the loss of his lover, has made him more serious at times, but it has also motivated him to take more risks in life—risks that have ultimately proved life affirming...
...Room tells a wrenching story - of a happy family riven by the teenage son's death - in acutely somber vignettes that avoid the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama. The Piano Teacher stirs up a tasty poison porridge of lusts and hatreds between a precocious pianist (Benoît Magimel) and his stern tutor (Isabelle Huppert); in chic, lurid images it suggests that teachers, perhaps all adults, try to express and exorcise their frustrations by dominating their charges. In coarser hands, this tale of obsession and self-mutilation could be ludicrous from the start; in these hands it is goofy only...
...Rouge, Red Rose, White Rose), filmed in secret and without official clearance. The story, about city-man Handong (Hu Jun) and country-boy Lan Yu (Lu Yue), could be a ripe pile of clichE if not handled deftly, but the clarity of Kwan's view gives the affair a somber tang. "You probably don't know it, but I love you," Handong says toward the end, and Lan Yu replies, "You probably don't know it, but I love you too." In its mix of regret and affection (and maybe a little white lying), this could be the last couplet...
...work of definitive analysis, you know? Like the big thinkers. Come up with an all-encompassing theory about the end of history, or the Whatsit Generation, or better yet, be Tocqueville--so that everyone in the Hamptons or on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket this summer would nod in somber yet enthusiastic agreement that, yep, this is America, all right...
...work is purely visual, with no aspirations to greater social or metaphysical meaning, his objects sometimes assume a more personal significance. In “Waiting,” which was conceived as a memento mori for a dead friend, a ponderous swath of fabric slumps above a somber procession of empty cobalt cups...