Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endure endless chronicles of aches and pains. They enumerate their own heart burns between the games. Weller is divorced, alienated from his family, and went broke in business when he was fleeced by his partners. Fonsia threw her husband out (or perhaps devoured him) and so estranged her only son that he won't even come to see her on visitors' days. Unfortunately, information delivered as narration chloroforms an audience rather than charging it with strongly felt emotions...
...story focuses on two best friends, born on the first day of the century in the rural Po Valley: Alfredo (Robert De Niro), the son of the area's leading landowner, and Olmo (Gerard Depardieu), a peasant who works the estate. During the film's first and better half, Bertolucci lyrically propels his heroes through the rituals of young manhood: they discover the meaning of sex and money, search for love and adjust to the passing of their family patriarchs (Burt Lancaster and Sterling Hayden). As Alfredo and Olmo grow older, their personalities are increasingly shaped...
...story of the man is a perennial rerun in England where it is constantly looped through a culture whose modern alterations were both feared and foreseen by the conservative Waugh. It is the story of a modest publisher's son whose intelligence, ambition and talent lofted him from the bourgeois professional class into the world of the Bright Young People, titled literati and London clubs, where a gentleman might get gloriously or morosely drunk amongst his peers...
...units in Belfast, has shadowed this gritty, convincing thriller in shades of gray. He knows the variegated forms of middle age, of working-class London, of fear: "A thin spiral of smoke was curling up from one corner of the top. He could smell the almond scent. 'You son of a bitch,' said Thomas, looking straight down into the box . . . The hour hand was nearly touching the nipple of metal." Atwater's stage machinery creaks a bit as Thomas and his bomb-making opponent are brought together, but the resolution is authentic, and properly somber. The rights...
...Widower's Son, Alan Sillitoe...