Portrait
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It's almost a perfect
portrait
of American families in the 50's, better (and before) than Nicholas Ray's "Rebel without a cause" and the consequences of generation affairs between father and sons, between the America coming out of a war and the new country that looks upon the future.
One thing I noticed about this cheese wedge was that it tried to look like it was taking place in North America even though it was made in Spain: 1- A
portrait
of George Washington hangs on the wall in the main setting.
Ben Gazzara provides an unforgettable
portrait
of a man grappling with a life that is beyond his ability to control.
Running just over an hour, this is a lovely film that presents a fascinating
portrait
of Japanese life before the war showing streets that look like narrow passageways, elevated tatami rooms used for drinking tea and smoking pipes, and buildings no higher than two stories.
'Silkwood' the movie doesn't give us the glib conclusions of a conspiracy thriller (it refrains from giving an opinion on her cause of death), but it does give an excellent
portrait
of life at the bottom, and the mounting sense of claustrophobia and paranoia that accompanied Karen's perilous voyage of discovery.
It remains a surprisingly accurate
portrait
of young ball players, snobby league officials and overbearing parents.
To some people, it is artistic to
portrait
poor lives.
While the film is an interesting
portrait
the struggle of first-generation Americans, it is ultimately disappointing.
This is an honest
portrait
of an artist, like him or not, it's well done, and certainly thought provoking; and while he may not be the best spoken man on earth I thought the film was amazing.
Complete with family grouped together in the corner in a perfect photo-op
portrait
pose, this speech can be seen coming for miles.
.. If the same
portrait
of Rajini, Kamal and Vijay are going to be always there, why see a dummy instead of a real one.
Originally titled "American Nightmare" and released by Troma in the States, this is a grim, depressing, heartfelt
portrait
of one Vietnam vet's rage.
Juliette Binoche was feeble in her portrayal of Mary Magdalene, delivering a confused, slightly hysterical and nondescript
portrait
of a woman who is otherwise known to be both an extraordinary person and supposedly the film's central concern.
The film itself may be masked propaganda for conformity and bourgeoisie, but delivers a satisfying and tear jerking
portrait
of love lost and refound but most importantly about the responsibility we all have not only to make ourselves happy but also the people around us, who rely on us for their joy in life.
An intriguing
portrait
of a young man drifting away from reality.
The
portrait
that emerges has been executed with bold strokes, vivid colors, and striking images.
This idea brings to mind Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, published a year after the Senate acquitted her husband of perjury and obstruction-of-justice charges, with its searing
portrait
of how indelible even an undeserved blot on one’s reputation can be.
But Leviathan's bleak
portrait
of contemporary Russian life actually confirms many of the reasons why Americans have been largely dubious about Russia's ability to reform following communism's collapse.
It is a rough but fair
portrait.
In this respect, they resemble the Chinese, who have energetically converted to capitalism while leaving the giant
portrait
of Chairman Mao in Tiananmen Square.
Adding to the turmoil was the publication of Bob Woodward’s latest book, Fear, which (like previous books on Trump, but to a greater extent and with more depth) offers a devastating
portrait
of a dysfunctional White House.
On one hand, some international media painted a black-and-white (and not always entirely objective)
portrait
of the March violence as a brutal Chinese crackdown on peaceful Tibetan monks.
In 2009, Spiegel Online ran a
portrait
gallery about Bagram titled “America’s Torture Chamber.”
His name is Barbet Schroeder, and the alert that he issued came in the form of his fine, sober film The Venerable W., a
portrait
of Myanmar’s Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu.
Mao, the False GodShould Chairman Mao’s huge
portrait
still hang above the front gate of Tiananmen Square?
Though his memoirs paint a characteristic
portrait
of a leader who knew what he was doing, research for my new biography shows that his policy towards the crisis across the Mediterranean combined hope and frustration.
A more accurate
portrait
of the wealth of nations must account not only for income, but also for natural and social assets.
For example, The Economist’s recent
portrait
of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti shows that Italy continues to be stymied by labor rules that make businesses reluctant to expand beyond 15 employees (after which it becomes hard for a firm to downsize).
One of the first things that our new PYD liberators/occupiers did after declaring victory was to display their own foreign identity by installing a huge
portrait
of the PKK’s jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
Karl Marx would have been proud of them, but it was the Pope’s
portrait
that hung on the gate of Gdansk’s Lenin Shipyard during the strike.
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