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Articles tagged "hiam abbass" Film ReviewThe Visitorby Cynthia Fuchs[17.Apr.08] :. Tender and detailed, Thomas McCarthy's movie features beautiful performances, but is grounded in a fundamental difficulty, that Walter's education is achieved by his engagement with brown and black people.  Film DVD ReviewFree Zone (2005)by Jake Meaney[9.Jul.07] :. After the initial early promise of its opening 15 minutes or so, the film resorts to spinning its wheels, then driving down dead-end alleys, and then plowing head-long into exactly the sort of heavy-handed didactic symbolism that gives me fits and has me reaching for the remote.  Film ReviewParadise Now (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Nov.05] :. At the start of the powerful Paradise Now, the bombers are quiet, even stunned at the news that their mission is set for tomorrow. Film DVD ReviewParadise Now (2005)by Cynthia FuchsHow might efforts to fathom suicide bombers' motives make them too much like their potential victims -- that is, everyone else -- and thus unmake the difference that defines everyone else?" |
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