Word: poignantly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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LANDSCAPE IN THE MIST. Greek director Theo Angelopoulos makes majestic visions out of spare images. In this metaphysical road movie, two children hike across Greece to find their absent father. A poignant but never sentimental view of childhood from a master of minimalism...
...Unknown Soldier. As he assists two women -- an attractive aristocrat (Sabine Azema) and a young teacher (Pascale Vignal) -- in locating their men, he realizes that there are many casualties on the scarred battlefields. They ) include those searching and mourning for their loved ones. At the end, Noiret sends a poignant love letter to Azema; the experience has made them a couple, perfectly matched but sadly unfulfilled. Tavernier, an ebullient bear of a man, is very much in the spirit of France's patron-saint director, Jean Renoir. In this monumental meditation on love in a time of war, Tavernier...
...novel, written in epistolary form, concentrated more on the dark laughter of the rehab clinic. The movie, which drops the postcards but keeps the edge, is a show-biz mother-daughter film par excellence -- Terms of Endearment out of Gypsy. Suzanne has her poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then...
METROPOLITAN. In this fizzy, poignant social comedy, a group of preppies lounge in a Park Avenue salon. They discuss Jane Austen novels, speak in Henry James sentences and try to live in Philip Barry's plays. Their manners are ) impeccable (a deb can be paid no higher compliment than being called "well read"), their snobbery impregnable (one boy doesn't have a driver's license because, he tuts, "I'm no jock!"). They know they are out of fashion and cheerfully debate their irrelevance, like dinosaurs analyzing their own bones. Most of them are moneyed, but they soon must admit...
...British producer Cameron Mackintosh announced that Jonathan Pryce would reprise his starring role in the Broadway edition of Miss Saigon, the London blockbuster musical that sets the Madama Butterfly story in the Vietnam War. Pryce had won an Olivier Award as the French-Vietnamese pimp who helps effect a poignant reunion between an American soldier and the Vietnamese girl he left behind...