Snivel

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–verb (used without object) 

1. to weep or cry with sniffling.

2. to affect a tearful state; whine.

3. to run at the nose; have a runny nose: She sniveled from the cold. 

4. to draw up mucus audibly through the nose: Stop sniveling and use your handkerchief.  



–verb (used with object) 

5. to utter with sniveling or sniffling. 



–noun 

6. weak, whining, or pretended weeping.

7. a light sniffle, as in weeping.

8. a hypocritical show of feeling: a sentimental snivel. 

9. mucus running from the nose.

10. snivels, a sniveling condition; a slight cold; sniffles (usually prec. by the).





　

The whole movie is acted in a straightforward, unaffected way. 



The hero (Philippe Marlaud) doesn't snivel and pine; his jealousy is frank and up front. His lover (Marie Riviere) is lonely and weary, but deliberately not tragic. The young girl from the bus (Anne-Laure Meury) is a small treasure, fresh and cheerful, revealing aspects of herself that she knows the boy Is not yet ready to observe. 



The ending, in which the hero chooses alienation over the simplicity of accepting happiness, is sad, and sadder still in that we immediately identify with it. 





schmaltz 

lachrymosity

because she brings a little [sassiness] to a film that threatens to drown in lachrymosity.

mawkish

maudlin



cetacean 

blubber

The [child] seemed to be blubbering something about a lost ring. 

[thick], blubber lips, blubber-[faced].  

Penn even tries to evoke the working-class [blubber] of the original version's star, Broderick Crawford 

cf. 

babble jabber blurb 

slaver 

drivel

slobber

The [baby] has slobbered his [bib].

My family [slobbered] all over me when I finally got home.  

slobbered [over] bloody gloves and horrifying 911 calls for over a year



weep

her fussing, her weeping, her [rashes] on hands and head.

Nubile