“I am afraid of losing you,” flamenco director Antonio tells the young, strikingly beautiful woman who has become his lover during rehearsals of his adaptation of Bizet’s opera Carmen, in which he plays Don José to her Carmen. The young dancer’s name also is Carmen. Wiry and weather-beaten, Antonio is not so young; in his […]
Daily Archives: December 20, 2009
Tulsi Chakraborty excels as Paresh Dutta, an insignificant bank clerk who rises in wealth and popularity, but also draws police scrutiny as a likely smuggler, after discovering a marble, a so-called “atom bomb,” that upon touching it turns iron into gold in Parash Pathar, Satyajit Ray’s lovely Capraesque fable about serendipity and satirical comedy about […]
Oversized, unwieldy Buddy, who has been raised by elves, leaves the North Pole to find his human father, a children’s book editor in New York City, where he is a fish out of water. Buddy’s father, Walter Hobbs, reluctantly takes him in, Buddy falls in love with Jovie, and Buddy on Christmas Eve is instrumental […]
Dennis Grunes 