frump
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–noun
1. a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
2. a dull, old-fashioned person.
Two sisters who haven't seen each other for 15 years gradually rediscover common [ground] and a way of relating to each other in "I've Loved You So Long," a movie that is utterly engrossing despite being, on the surface, about very little.
Toplined by Kristin Scott Thomas as the [slightly] frumpy older sister, this first feature by teacher-turned-scripter Philippe Claudel will need strong critical support to make much of a loving [dent] theatrically, but is a [quality] item for upscale French movie buffs. Pic goes out in Gaul mid-March.
Claudel's script is built out of everyday, unmelodramatic events, succinctly dialogued and not nearly as downbeat as the movie sounds on paper: Juliette trying to find a job, Juliette taunted by a friend (Olivier Cruvellier) at a dinner party, Juliette befriended by Lea's colleague Michel (Laurent Grevill). But pic's hub is the relationship between the two sisters -- one who's been ground down by years of guilt, and another who's opened a door for her sister to walk through if the latter so chooses.
hub
集線器 (集中多條通訊線纜的裝置)
Scott Thomas is ace[s] in the lead role, with flashes of mordant wit that prevent it from becoming a dreary study in self-pity. Zylberstein, a variable actress who's very dependent on her directors, is good here, but lacks Scott Thomas' quiet heft and can't quite handle Lea's occasional emotional outbursts. Still, the sisters' dramatic final talk works just fine.
Setting in Nancy, eastern France, in Claudel's home province of Alsace-Lorraine, allows the characters to develop naturally, [un]encumbered by the familiar sites of a city like Paris. Jerome Almeras' lensing is bright and well composed, and pacing is easy, making the almost two-hour running time pass [smoothly].
raunchy slob unkempt
randy
and Randal (Jeff Anderson), that [spiky], even less evolved specimen of dedicated...uh, [randiness]
disheveled
But the [souffle] never [rises], for reasons that begin with the fact that the [disheveled] Jerry seems like a certifiable lunatic in immediate need of extended treatment.
Debauchery
Y
D
–noun
1. a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
2. a dull, old-fashioned person.
Two sisters who haven't seen each other for 15 years gradually rediscover common [ground] and a way of relating to each other in "I've Loved You So Long," a movie that is utterly engrossing despite being, on the surface, about very little.
Toplined by Kristin Scott Thomas as the [slightly] frumpy older sister, this first feature by teacher-turned-scripter Philippe Claudel will need strong critical support to make much of a loving [dent] theatrically, but is a [quality] item for upscale French movie buffs. Pic goes out in Gaul mid-March.
Claudel's script is built out of everyday, unmelodramatic events, succinctly dialogued and not nearly as downbeat as the movie sounds on paper: Juliette trying to find a job, Juliette taunted by a friend (Olivier Cruvellier) at a dinner party, Juliette befriended by Lea's colleague Michel (Laurent Grevill). But pic's hub is the relationship between the two sisters -- one who's been ground down by years of guilt, and another who's opened a door for her sister to walk through if the latter so chooses.
hub
集線器 (集中多條通訊線纜的裝置)
Scott Thomas is ace[s] in the lead role, with flashes of mordant wit that prevent it from becoming a dreary study in self-pity. Zylberstein, a variable actress who's very dependent on her directors, is good here, but lacks Scott Thomas' quiet heft and can't quite handle Lea's occasional emotional outbursts. Still, the sisters' dramatic final talk works just fine.
Setting in Nancy, eastern France, in Claudel's home province of Alsace-Lorraine, allows the characters to develop naturally, [un]encumbered by the familiar sites of a city like Paris. Jerome Almeras' lensing is bright and well composed, and pacing is easy, making the almost two-hour running time pass [smoothly].
raunchy slob unkempt
randy
and Randal (Jeff Anderson), that [spiky], even less evolved specimen of dedicated...uh, [randiness]
disheveled
But the [souffle] never [rises], for reasons that begin with the fact that the [disheveled] Jerry seems like a certifiable lunatic in immediate need of extended treatment.
Debauchery
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