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Kurt Andersen is the author of two novels, the critically acclaimed bestsellers Heyday and Turn of the Century. His new book is called Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America. He is also host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program Studio 360, editor-at-large for Random House, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and writes for film, television and the stage. Author of Reset, Host of Studio 360 |
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 I haven't been a gigantic Pedro Almodóvar fan in the past, which is probably because I'm too literal-minded and conventional in my narrative tastes. So I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed his new film, Broken Embraces. It's a good old-fashioned mystery about a blind filmmaker and his movie-actress former girlfriend (played by Penelope Cruz), well-plotted and emotionally affecting as well as sexy and witty. (Interestingly, the one gay character is a creep.) Walking out of the theater, my first thought was: "Hitchcock with nudity!" |
Dolmance
The first sentence of this article strips the author of any credibility when writing about film. And that's all she wrote.
moxichick
Thankfully I'm fluent in Spanish, so I can enjoy Almodovar's movies the way they were intended to be seen en Espanol. Gracias por la alerta de la nueva pelicula!
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