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Apple TV+'s Land of Women is Pretty and Pleasant
It’s comfy like an old sweater without much of a lesson or moral to get in the way of its overarching sense of warmth.
It’s comfy like an old sweater without much of a lesson or moral to get in the way of its overarching sense of warmth.
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The Grand Poobah writes: "be there or be square...."(click to enlarge)
View image Three Women of "Volver": Sister, niece/daughter, sister.
The dry east wind that howls through the little village in La Mancha where Pedro Almodovar was born, and where his latest film "Volver" begins, brings with it unease, fire and insanity. In the opening shot, it blows crisp dead leaves across marble graves, while women dust and polish the stones. Sometimes, they even come by to clean their own graves. It's just another housekeeping chore.
CANNES, France –- All rumors about the prizes at Cannes are essentially worthless. Why don’t I know this? I could make up my own and do just about as well. It is apparently true that Sam Jackson told somebody there were going to be “big surprises” when the awards were announced, and there were; never before has a jury honored the casts of two films with ensemble acting awards, and certainly no one predicted that Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” would win the Palme d’Or. When it did, there was much agreement, and, yes, much surprise.
List of winners at the 59th Cannes Film Festival
