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Real life added a tragic coda to The Year of Magical Thinking. On Aug. 26, the unthinkable happened again: at 39, Quintana died after a long illness. Didion, already a widow, became a grieving mother as well. "I haven't started being crazy for Quintana yet," she says, almost matter-of-factly, "and I'm sort of past being crazy for John. Sanity came back, and now I'm sort of still in shock about Quintana...
...novel by female writer Fumiko Hayashi, often considered as Naruse’s muse, the film is recognized as one of Japan’s greatest tales of obsessive love, a story of woman bound by circumstance and self-delusion, determined to pursue a romance to its tragic conclusion...
Complexly satiric and tragic, Lulu is a portrayal of an uncommonly animalistic female sexuality. And yet this devouring, voyeuristic female role is a lens through which to comment on the harm of social divisions. It’s a conclusion reached through the unusual device of maintaining Lulu’s overt sexuality from the height of her social stature through her decline and fall. Lulu embodies the commonality that bonds humanity: the sexual craving...
Thursday, Oct. 6—Saturday, Oct. 8. The Last Five Years. A comic and tragic musical exploration of five years of marriage between an aspiring actress and a writer. 2:30 p.m. (Saturday) and 7:30 p.m. Loeb Ex. Free. Tickets available only at the Loeb Drama Center Box Office, 64 Brattle...
...nice, but something tells me I won’t be moving to Ohio anytime soon. At least Spoon and the Pixies came to town; along with Sufjan Stevens and The Mountain Goats (those two it-boys of sensitive singer-songwritering) I spent a summer that was more tragic than hip. My song was “This Year,” the Mountain Goats’ tragic but exuberant story of adolescent defiance...