Word: surrealness
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...does Barry every now and then destroy a bathroom or a glass patio door? Dunno. Won't even speculate. Probably just one of those inexplicably surreal accidents that writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson likes. Remember the frog shower in Magnolia...
...sounds of a porno flick being shot on a nearby island, Ramsay and her boyfriend, rock musician Rory Kinnear, said "I do." "I think the whole thing cost 20 quid," she says. "It felt like a Fellini film." It's no surprise that Ramsay's life takes surreal twists. So do the lives of the characters in her films. Morvern, which opens in the U.K. on Nov. 1, tells the story of a supermarket drudge in a Scottish seaside town who wakes up one Christmas morning to find her boyfriend dead beneath the Christmas tree, among the presents he wrapped...
...obtained full citizenship. If he had been set free, he would have been forcibly returned to Algeria, a country whose culture and languages are not his own. In denying Mesbah the justice of parole, the Toulouse magistrate sought to prevent the greater injustice of deportation. "In a situation as surreal as this, Aïssa's continued detention averts the worst while providing some margin for hope," says Mesbah's lawyer, François Vintrou. "The judge has essentially told the Interior Ministry [which issued the double peine expulsion order], 'I can't do what's right until you promise...
...amused: Canada, by a country mile. "The result was clear and consistent throughout the whole thing," Wiseman says. They just didn't find much to laugh about. I don't care so much about what made Germany laugh, or what made Canada not laugh, or that France - surprise - likes surreal humor, or even that America - surprise, surprise - likes jokes that make people feel inferior. Nor am I worried about the self-esteem of ducks, surprisingly rated as the funniest - and thus the most laughed-at - creatures. ("My money would have been on the chicken," says Wiseman.) I am, however, worried...
...It’s kind of surreal to envision Thora portraying me, particularly through that period of my life where such personal events took place. I can associate her likeness with big blockbuster films like American Beauty, and now I will adjust to seeing her play me. It’s strange, but wonderful,” Murray said yesterday...