Word: sullens
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That face is worth saving, since the title role is played by the radiantly sullen Gong, who has starred in all of Zhang's features and who was declared best actress at last year's Venice Film Festival for this portrayal. As Qiu Ju or Ju Dou, as the bride in Red Sorghum or the balky mistress in Red Lantern, Gong has brought life and body to the director's ethereal cinema style. The Story of Qiu Ju relies even more on her personality than the team's earlier films. There Gong was swathed in luscious silks and period exoticism...
Picture yourself trying to start something but not being able to. Picture yourself travelling hundreds of miles only to be relegated to idleness. Picture all your expectations building and building and then uncontrollably falling by your side sullen, deflated--in a word unfulfilled...
...people are actors; they find great scenes between the cushions of O'Neill's rhetoric. This is why dramas like Anna Christie -- ponderous artifacts stocked with sullen, logorrheic characters -- are so often revived, with such imposing casts. Jason Robards has long fanned the flame on Broadway, / and London has seen many winning revivals: the Glenda Jackson Strange Interlude, Desire Under the Elms with Colin Firth and Carmen Du Sautoy, A Touch of the Poet with Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave. Actors love digging to the core of a role, no matter how long it takes; and O'Neill's plays...
...actors, and for the record, the acting was pretty good. Henry Wiley did a good job as the title character, a homeless teenager. He managed to be alienated and troubled without being sullen. Older actors James Morgan and Connie Dawson gave especially lively readings as a restauranteur and a bag lady, respectively. Most of the other parts didn't get much stage time, but everyone was consistent and fairly appealing. I wouldn't mind watching them again...
...jack. It becomes clear to his parents (who knew nothing about the girlfriend) and younger sister that he is probably guilty, though when he is caught after several days, he refuses to say a word. The lawyer they hire isn't encouraging. Local peasants mutter and look sullen...