Word: tragic
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Chunhyang, released in 2000, was adapted from a traditional epic and recounts the embattled life and tragic death of the titular courtesan. In the film, Kwon-taek combines the conventions of historical melodrama and musicals in ways reminiscent of Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, which, incidentally, beat Kwon-taek’s film for the Palm d’Or at that year’s Cannes Film Festival...
...that their laughter is derived from an old woman’s senility. The thin line between humor and pain that Women treads is on full display at the end of Act One, when A delivers an anecdote about her husband that veers from amusing to uncomfortable to simply tragic, all within the span of a couple minutes...
...death of Hariri was a major shock to the system,” he said. “Tragic as the heinous act of killing him was, I think it’s going to reunite Lebanon...
...fact, the Candide music really carried the show. At times, the production’s plot was rather disjointed and failed to generate much excitement, but the audience members could not help but lose themselves in the majesty of the jarring and tragic music...
...come-hither boys dressed as pagan gods have dirty fingernails, his saints have calloused feet and sunburn. As his art evolved he learned to present them in starkly lit, deeply shadowed space that lent them majesty even as his grubby detailing kept them all too human. He invented tragic realism: his work was the great hinge upon which art turned, not just toward the Baroque, but toward us. The force and immediacy that make 17th century painters so moving - the everyday people in Velázquez and Rembrandt; the strobe-lit dramas in Ribera and Georges de La Tour - flow...