Word: tragically
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...tragic story is Lee (Jonny Lee Miller), a struggling actor, and his stylish wife Laurel (Chloë Sevigny). In the comic is Susan (Amanda Peet), a film director, and her actor husband Hobie (Will Ferrell). Shuttling between them as the cause or victim of many an infidelity is Melinda (Radha Mitchell), whose bruised allure men find irresistible--especially Hobie, the whiny Allen stand-in. One look at this wounded creature brings out both the beast and the veterinarian in him. He wants to ravage and save...
Allen has assembled an attractive cast and given most of them clichés to inhabit. He has also stinted on inventiveness. Allen, in his Purple Rose of Cairo phase, might have allowed Hobie to step into the other story and rescue the tragic Melinda. The film's serious half could have been more powerful, the comic half lots funnier...
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...
...Moriarty, and his brother, played by Joe Pesci. Raging Bull also marked the return of star, director, and screenwriter Paul Schrader from Taxi Driver, and shares much of that film’s deep exploration of the coincidences of power, sex, violence, and of one man’s tragic self-destruction. Raging Bull is one of the great films of the ’80s, but it follows the ’70s traditions of gritty action, fantastic performances, and deep introspection into violence...
...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...