Word: twistings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...began the festival with a sardonic awareness of tradition, which suited the budding playwrights’ efforts to forge their own, new dramatic conventions. In it, a father who wants to circumcise his son according to family ritual is prevented from doing so. In an ironic twist, the professional he hires botches...
...year before his film debut, Chabrol co-wrote a book on Hitchcock's oeuvre (with fellow critic and budding director Eric Rohmer). Of all the new-wave auteurs, Chabrol was the one who took Hitchcock's fancy for cinematic dread most to heart, then gave it his own twist. In deadpan tragedies like Le Boucher, La Femme Infidčle and The Beast Must Die, passion leads to crimes of passion, and crime to self-lacerating punishment. These films are all the more potent because they speak their evils and ironies in a Gallic whisper...
...Stars Even before Animal Collective first rolled into the collective consciousness with last year’s “Sung Tongs,” the Brooklyn menagerie fluctuated between vast, protean, electronic soundscapes that twist and turn at every melody and fuzzed-out pop songs...
...fellas, and get ready to see some December-May sex with thirty-something Thurman. “Prime” is billed as a romantic comedy in which Rafi (Uma Thurman), a 37-year-old recent divorcé begins a relationship with 23-year-old Dave (Bryan Greenberg). The twist is that Dave also happens to be the son of Rafi’s therapist, Lisa (Meryl Streep). At first, only Lisa realizes their convoluted connection and must listen uncomfortably to Rafi disclose intimate details in therapy (e.g. “His penis is so beautiful. I just want...
...Morris, Collins, and Maureen in which Collins’s attraction to Morris becomes apparent and Maureen gains some blackmail material. It seems that the central motivations for all the characters ought to hinge on that scene; however, rather than strike a deeper psychological chord or provide a plot twist, the scene ends up only tangential to the resolution of the film. As a duo, Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth both do well with the characterizations they’re given. Firth in particular excels playing against type as a manipulative, deeply depressed loner with few redeeming characteristics...