Word: working-class
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...says, slapping violently against the side of her head. "I have to take some of it out and put it down somewhere, or I will burst." The effort seems to have taken over Nouman's life to the exclusion of everything else. Her small home in Baghdad's working-class al-Ghadeer district is filthy; the rooms are damp and smell of rotting garbage. Her pets, a mangy brown pup and two molting cats, have shed clumps of fur on her bed, an old foam mattress on the living-room floor. There are pieces of stale bread everywhere...
...actor award at Cannes and made him a sought-after commodity. He now has the luxury of choosing his projects and turned down a part in Martin Scorsese's forthcoming Gangs of New York to make The Magdalene Sisters. Hollywood has beckoned but Mullan still sees himself as a working-class lad from Glasgow. "It's like the 'Are you still a Catholic?' question," he says. "I was brought up a Catholic until I was 18. I was economically working class until I was 37. I can't escape in that I'm working class, but I'm very lucky...
...delicious comedy everyone is a crook: the ex-con hero, his "dying" mother and the village mayor who acts as if he's Vito Corleone. Creative chicanery: that's capitalism, Third World-style. If films weren't overtly political, they were insistently social. Some of the strongest works examined the working-class, the out-of-work, the criminally forlorn. The Brazilian City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, is a ferocious fresco of Rio slum kids who grow up to be vicious gangsters, if they don't die first. The movie's style...
...such boldness, Fo has won both hatred and acclaim. The esteem with which he is held in academic circles is often equaled by the animosity shown by many of his audiences—not just the middle-class theatergoers to whom Fo often refers with contempt, but also the working-class and politically ostracized elements of society toward which Fo’s work appears most sympathetic...
...notice similarities here with the work of filmmaker Mike Leigh, director of such British working-class dramas as "Secrets & Lies" and "Raining Stones." "Breakfast After Noon" doesn't have quite the grit of those films, though. The secondary characters aren't very fleshed out, and the story lacks the complexity of the Leigh films, which are also much more political than "Breakfast." On the other hand, you don't need subtitles to get past the accents...