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...these questions, I would say that Prina’s work instills in me both a profound respect and a vague uneasiness. As I have already made clear, I admire his ability to play within the open field of meaning that he has opened up for himself, but somehow I can’t help but wish he could also push beyond it. I worry about getting lost in endless tangles of allusions, about the possibility that our ostensible freedom to play with meaning in reality forces us to forfeit the potential to formulate any meaning at all. Toward...
...Dorian Gray in that gallery, I couldn’t even look at No. 2 afterward. In comparison, the Pollock just seemed compleltely unstimulating: flat, bland, tame. I remember being very angry about this. I knew that the Pollock was a good painting, but I felt that Kline had somehow spoiled it for me. It was as if I had snacked on too much salty junk food and couldn’t taste anymore when I sat down to eat a nice meal...
Everyone Mathilde knows tells her to move on, to accept his death. But she is connected to him; she is sure she would know, somehow, if he were dead. They have grown up together, spent all their time with each other until Manech went to war. She is sure he is alive. And with resolve and conviction, she sets out to learn his fate...
...structured with voiced-over excerpts from Cristina’s college entrance essay about her mother. The idea seems at first a little cheesy—the narration smacks of the immature musings of an over-achieving high schooler—but Brooks, great scribe that he is, somehow manages to make the words mean something. It actually becomes one of the strengths of the film: when Cristina asserts towards the end, “though your acceptance will thrill me—it won’t define me. I am my mother’s daughter...
Sandler, though quite good, is mildly decent compared to the stellar cast around him. Tea Leoni pulls off an incredible feat: the Deborah Clasky character is manic, egotistical, with absolutely no redeemable qualities yet somehow she brings a warmth and humanity to the character—you don’t hate her at the end of the movie. Vega, star of Spanish hits Sex Y Lucia and Talk to Her, stubbornly refuses to make Flor a type character, replacing the ignorant, meek characteristics of the non-English speaking servant with nobility and confidence...