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Acted with subtle ferocity, directed with expansive tenderness, Like Water for Chocolate is a story of passion in bondage and death in a fire storm of desire too long withheld. Viewers need not feel so constrained; they can enjoy the emotional splendor, gasp at the ghosts, cry with as much good cause as Tita. By comparison with this banquet of feelings, most other movies are trail...
...Daumier do this? By fixing his pincer gaze on the theatrics of the law. In the drawing known variously as For the Defense and The Lyric Advocate, the lawyer's court robes puff out in baroque splendor -- one thinks, perhaps not irrelevantly, of Bernini's bust of Louis XIV -- on the hot air of his rhetoric, as he gestures at the man in the dock, a Jean Valjean whose simian face betrays not the slightest comprehension of what is being said on his behalf. Emphasized by the dark mass of the lawyer's sleeve, the short distance between...
...religious overtone of the book, grappling with the Judeo-Christian tradition and the image of God in poetry. Alternately sorrowful and biting, Schnackenberg derides a modern society that has lost touch with its historic roots. Ancient ruins figure prominently in this sequence, symbols of an artistic and spiritual splendor that once existed and has now been abandoned and forgotten. Poetry is described as "a gold thread...you feel your way along" in the search for memory...
...SPANISH SPLENDOR...
Although the cast occasionally falls short of realizing the play's potential, this production of The Fantasticks attests to the splendor of this timeless musical...