Antonio Peitrangeli acquaints us with Adriana, an ingénue who flees an onerous life in the Italian countryside for a precarious Rome with dreamy ambitions of becoming a star.
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I Knew Her Well opens with a long, slow panoramic pan of ocean waves lapping a desolate, littered beachscape accompanied by a snappy 60s instrumental theme that…
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My Neighbor Totoro opens with a doting, bookish father transplanting himself and his two adorable girls, roly-poly Mei (the curious, courageous) and svelte Satsuki (the conscientious and dutiful), to a verdant farming village. They are moving to bring the family nearer to their mother, who is bedridden in a neighboring hospice gracefully enduring an unnamed malady.
The house they move into has been shut tight against the elements. A traditional Japanese dwelling with sliding panel walls and doors, they playfully…
When Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) is matter-of-factly accused by his interactive video game avatar of being a pussy, he does not object. Behold the ultimate hipster: an affluent copywriter of adorable personalized hallmark cards by day, an emo-depleted videogamer by night.
Theodore is trapped in a lovelorn daze by a deferred yet imminent divorce (from Rooney Mara). His daydreams chronicle the romantic decline from halcyon days to emotional detachment. Occasionally he shares these reminiscences with his bestie Amy (Amy Adams, disguised…
