Word: garcã
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...prestigious Rómulo Gallegos prize, now available in an English translation by Natasha Wimmer—Bolaño, who died in 2003, became known as the most important and influential novelist in the Spanish-speaking world, a writer mentioned in the same breath as Borges and Garc??a Márquez. Unlike the other demigods of the literary canon, though, Bolaño seems like a guy you could meet on the street, not a monument cast in bronze. This is the lifelong iconoclast who dropped out of school at 15, stole the books he read, attended...
After playing a beleaguered border crosser in Babel, just out on DVD, Mexico's multilingual Gael Garc??a Bernal directed his first film, Dficit...
They're old friends, you see, each ready to lend a hand in the other's projects. They also encourage family and friends to join the fun. Cuarn's brother Carlos will soon direct a film starring Gael Garc??a Bernal and Diego Luna, the two lads from Alfonso's hit comedy Y tu mam tambin. Arriaga has written a true-life AIDS drama, The Dallas Buyer's Club, which is to star and be produced by a member of the Babel ensemble: Brad Pitt...
...much. Blanchett, as the wounded tourist, doesn’t get much dialogue to show off her American accent. She mainly just bleeds, although she does occasionally moan. The not-quite-convincingly-graying Pitt likewise has little to do other than alternately bristle and cower. The usually charismatic Gael Garc??a Bernal (“The Science of Sleep”) is unfortunately given only a peripheral role. Iñárritu tries to underscore his miscommunication trope by riling up characters too quickly, and without much cause. As a result, interaction between characters never feels entirely authentic...
...poem keeps getting better as it progresses. It concludes irresistibly with the Spanish writer Federico Garc??a Lorca, reincarnated as a limping sparrow, pronouncing gloomily: “Literature will lose, sunlight will win, don’t worry...