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For much of the film, Ofelia's fairy-tale quest is secondary to the power vectors at work in the house. Tensions bubble between the Captain and Ofelia's weak mother, and especially the Captain and the housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verd?). These are two marvelous characters. She has a quiet...
Half of the critics here say that, on its seventh day, Cannes finally found a film worthy of the Palme d'Or. The other half were less impressed. Maybe it's a boy-girl thing. Which is why we offer a he-said-she-said appraisal of this important and...
The excerpts shown Friday began with an scene showing the Dreamettes, as they first call themselves, getting a gig as the backup girl group to Early; it's a dy-no-mite turn by Murphy, who used to parody James Brown on Saturday Night Live and does a more mature...
With images still fresh of protesters massed on France's streets and faces painted with non in opposition to the youth job bill, could it be possible that reform is afoot in labor, health care, housing and anticrime policy? Although readers look forward to positive change, their hopes are tempered...
Sittenfeld's relationship with chick lit has never been quite comfortable--but in a way, chick lit has never been totally comfortable with itself. As a genre it sets itself the task of chronicling the (literarily underserved) lives of contemporary single women--but then, all too often, it suffers a...