Word: mawkishly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Beyond these invaluable assets, Kunhardt Sr. seems miraculously to have maintained a complete involvement in the doings of his four children without being at all mawkish about it. He kept a stuffed folder on each one, including curls from the first haircut, report cards, notes to and from family members...
...some wildly funny dialogue-most of which has been taken directly from Malamud's story. Mostel is especially entertaining doing the tailor-on-the-roof routine that is his forte. But even Zero's comic genius cannot carry the lugubrious sermonizing about black-Jewish relationships and the mawkish comedy that goes with it. In a reverse insult, Levine calls Mishkin "nigger," to which Mishkin replies, "This is the way a Jewish angel talks...
Directed by Nelo Risi, who also collaborated on the script, Diary is candid without being voyeuristic and sympathetic without being mawkish. Risi's gentle direction never obtrudes, and even the flashbacks do not obstruct. The film's muted colors and luxuriant landscapes heighten the dramatic impact...
...such previous exercises as A Man and a Woman, Lelouch's unrelievedly romantic style has overemphasized his mawkish plots. Here he seems at times to be kidding himself. The zestful air of holiday and discovery is irresistible. If Antonioni's Zabriskie Point was a poison-pen letter to America, then Love Is a Funny Thing is a distinctively Gallic billetdoux that turns the entire continent into a joyful landscape for lovers...
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