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Lovers of the Arctic Circle, the newest feature from Spanish writer and director Julio Medem, should come with some sort of a warning label. For those of us humanities majors who thought that after passing the QRR we would never have to take another math class again, Medem's romantic saga can come as something of a shock. Who would have thought that all those old logical tools left behind in high school calculus class would come back to haunt us in a movie theater...
Lovers of the Arctic Circle, the newest feature from Spanish writer and director Julio Medem, should come with some sort of a warning label. For those of us humanities majors who thought that after passing the QRR we would never have to take another math class again, Medem's romantic saga can come as something of a shock. Who would have thought that all those old logical tools left behind in high school calculus class would come back to haunt us in a movie theater...
...intelligence to their personalities that suits the movie well. They seem to be at once constantly contemplating the strange pull of fate that directs their lives and rebelling against it, trying to make room for emotions in the coldly mathematical world that Medem creates. Medem himself as both writer and director shares this passion and intelligence. Lovers of the Arctic Circle could very easily come across as a pretentious intellectual attack on our beliefs about emotion and free will. But Medem doesn't frame his work as an attack so much as he poses it as a question. What...
...intelligence to their personalities that suits the movie well. They seem to be at once constantly contemplating the strange pull of fate that directs their lives and rebelling against it, trying to make room for emotions in the coldly mathematical world that Medem creates. Medem himself as both writer and director shares this passion and intelligence. Lovers of the Arctic Circle could very easily come across as a pretentious intellectual attack on our beliefs about emotion and free will. But Medem doesn't frame his work as an attack so much as he poses it as a question. What...
...against a return to the societal sigma's of the Victorian era, but she does Harvard and women a dangerous disservice to claim that modesty fuels rape. The magazine selection at Out of Town News needs to be worrying us a lot more than women in turtle necks. The writer is a resident tutor in Mather House. LAWRENCE P. MORRIS April...