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...instantly into perfect synch. The last line of Volver - "I don't know how I've lived all these years without you" - could be Almodóvar's testimony to his old friend and star. Whether or not he's working at masterpiece altitude, he remains at 56 the wonder boy of international cinema. Movies couldn't live without him. Babel's story line is even more complex than Volver's, spanning three continents and a dozen major characters, most of whom never meet one another. Yet their most innocent actions - giving a present to a stranger, escorting two kids...
...while Gore was basking in solar-drenched adulation at Cannes, Clinton was presenting her own energy plan in an hourlong wonkathon at the National Press Club in Washington. As Clinton showed her command of the intricacies of carbon-dioxide sequestration and cellulosic ethanol, it was impossible not to wonder whether the two of them might once again be crowding onto the same turf. Maureen Dowd wrote in the New York Times: "Al Gore must want to punch Hillary Clinton right through the hole in the ozone layer." Gore, however, took pains to tamp down that kind of talk...
...America, let's call it, and without being any less of an American myself, the piggishness of us all. Clearly, there's going to be a global crisis in the amount of petroleum in the world. There's only so much, and there are more people wanting it. No wonder the Third World is sore at us. We're spending the limited reserves of resources about as fast as we can. Our solution is to waste it all and then punt and see what we might do next. It's very easy to sort of look back and think that...
...Sofia (Soon-yin Lee), half of the heterosexual pair, she feels constrained in her marriage to Rob (Raphael Barker). No wonder there: one day she discovers Rob pleasuring himself while perusing a porn website. "I'm looking for a job," he explains lamely. "What," she asks, "a hand job?" But Sofia has her own problems: she's a sex therapist who gets no ultimate kick from sex. When James and Jamie come to her as patients, she turns the tables by confessing to them: "I'm pre-orgasmic." "Does that mean you're about to have one?" "No. It means...
...straight ones). But I hail Mitchell for achieving something that was on many a serious director's mind 30 years ago: the coherent integration of explicit sex scenes into a naturalistic story film. Mitchell said that in press interviews here, he was asked over and over, "Why sex?" I wonder: What took so long? Most people laugh and cry; most people have sex, occasionally at the same time. Sex isn't divorced from our own emotional biographies; it's an inextricable part of it. So I applaud Mitchell. And I say to other intrepid filmmakers: Just...