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...really good, really convincingly jaded, dressed in vintage clothing, eyebrow arched, drinking our coffee black? Hadn’t we founded a half-assed arts collective in our common room? Didn’t we know kind of a lot of punk songs? Couldn’t we quote Sylvia Plath to each other in flat voices—“Every woman adores a Fascist/ The boot in the face, the brute/ Brute heart of a brute like you”? Didn’t we construe practically everything ironically? Weren’t we post-angst, post...
...fictionalized account of the inspiration for James M. Barrie's tale of a boy who soars through eternal adolescence and takes a family of London kids along for the ride. In this version, based on Allan Knee's 1998 play, Barrie (Johnny Depp) befriends the young sons of socialite Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet). While she grows ill from tuberculosis, Barrie spins a fantasy world; it is therapy for the boys and a spur to his theatrical creativity. The result: Peter Pan, which turns 100 next month...
Alas, the film takes ages to come to life. Instead of seducing the audience into Barrie's world, it assumes we will have brought the magic with us and need only a rouged-up, dewily rendered version of the true story. David Magee's script, which kills off Sylvia's husband and hurries along the dissolution of Barrie's marriage, also apportions blame far too blithely, turning James' wife (the lovely Radha Mitchell) and Sylvia's mother (the meanly used Julie Christie) into those familiar villains, small-minded grownups. Sylvia too is a stick figure: languishing like the heroine...
...Lolita spends most of the film either ignored by her father, Etienne (played by Bacri), besotted with her singing teacher, Sylvia (Jaoui) or chasing after a boy who doesn't want her. But Berry keeps her character optimistic and determined, going from lovable to intolerable and back again while she fights to find a place in her father's world. As Etienne, Bacri is brutal, callous and beyond redemption. In The Taste of Others, Bacri's lovelorn character is cranky but harmless; in Look at Me, he's pure bastard. His young wife, Karine, and his put-upon assistant, Vincent...
Laughs were notably absent from Beck's last album, Sea Change, which was full of the kind of beautiful breakup melodies and brutal words normally associated with Gordon Lightfoot and Sylvia Plath. Beck promises a touch of sincerity but adds, "There's definitely a lot more jokes and kicking cardboard boxes and rattling chains and playing slide guitar. This album is full of raggediness." Contributing to the raggediness are song titles like Guero, E-Pro and Brazilica, as well as a guest appearance by Jack White of the White Stripes. Beck appeared in a White Stripes video last year...