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‘Girls on Wire' Review: Two Cousins Reunited on a Chinese Film Set Are Trapped in a Melodrama of Their Own Making
In another scene, Tian Tian hovers outside a film set ... Still, it does the job, driving the melodrama forward. When Qu really wants to tug our emotions, she flashes back to the cousins as ...
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Secrets and silence haunt a grieving family in this spellbinding melodrama
In On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, filmmaker Rungano Nyoni weaves a surreal drama about defiance in the face of ritual, and the ...
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Bentley Discusses Appeal of Melodrama
Eric Bentley tried to break down the current "prejudice against melodrama" as he resumed his Charles Eliot Norton lectures last night. Though melodrama is accused of exaggerating emotions ...