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1 “Dancing With
the Stars”
network
6 Early sign of
spring
11 Big, uncouth guy
14 Flap
15 Now
16 King of ancient
Rome
17 Songs without
words?
19 Celebrity known
for wearing gold
jewelry
20 Like
21 Check for a
poker player?
22 Corner of a
diamond
23 Place name
derived from a
Koyukon word for
“tall”
25 Touch
27 Earthquake
consequence?
31 Span. title
34 Pasta sauce
flavoring
35 Jane __, only
female Chicago
mayor
36 Strong flavor
38 Dog or fox
40 One looking
ahead
41 Autobahn autos
43 Dreaded
mosquito
45 Mercedes
roadsters
46 House cat’s
challenge?
49 Supplements
50 Date night
destination
54 Corporate money
mgrs.
55 Hustler’s genre
59 Dollar alternative
60 Pop __
61 Money-making
fiasco?
63 Important time
64 Leader of the
pack?
65 Main artery
66 __ Taco
67 Manage
68 Solid that, when
divided into three
parts, describes
this puzzle’s
theme
DOWN
1 Sportscaster
Rashad
2 Capital on its
own river
3 “__ Thro’ the
Rye”: Burns
4 Kin, informally
5 Soccer practice
transport
6 Sphere
opening
7 Lynda Bird’s
married name
8 Auteur’s starting
point
9 Stock-tracking
device
10 Part of PBS:
Abbr.
11 Current-carrying
components
12 Staff
13 Substances that
add protein to
meat
18 Pioneer
mainframe
22 Depth indicators,
at times
24 Court ploy
26 Texter’s “Gimme
a sec”
28 Son of Abraham
29 Levi’s Stadium
player, familiarly
30 Skate
31 Stood
32 In quick
succession
33 Like some
speech
components
37 “Cagney &
Lacey” co-star
39 Church VIP
42 Rest
44 Govt. stipend
provider
47 “Fat chance”
48 Charm
51 “If __ Would
Leave You”
52 Perfume
applications
53 State in northeast
India
56 How ties may be
broken, briefly
57 Re-entry need
58 Word in many
place names
61 Stir-fry additive
62 Opening
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03/25/16
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‘The Bronze’ not
funny as intended
Sundance darling
doesn’t stick the
landing
By MADELEINE GAUDIN
Daily Arts Writer
Once upon a time, Hope
Ann Gregory (Melissa Rauch,
“The Big Bang Theory”) was
America’s sweetheart. She won
the titular bronze in the 2004
Olympics
and with it,
the hearts of
fans
across
the
United
States.
Twelve
years
later,
back at home
in Amherst,
Ohio,
not
much has changed in Hope’s
mind. She’s still an “American
hero” deserving of free food
at the mall food court. Except
there’s a new child prodigy
in town and, following the
death of Hope’s old coach (and
some
complicated
business
with her inheritance money),
Hope is forced to step up and
help Mighty Maggie (Haley
Lu Richardson, “The Young
Kielowski”) on her path to
stardom.
“The
Bronze”
takes
its
time getting to that so-called
stardom. Hope initially sets
Maggie up for failure, filling her
with junk food, Avril Lavigne
and a highly potent “green”
smoothie. Then a quick change
of heart alongside the promise
of money turns her around.
From there, Hope must struggle
with
being
an
absolutely
miserable person and her fear
that
Maggie’s
success
will
overshadow her own.
Rauch plays the insufferable
Hope perfectly. So perfectly,
in fact, that she’s absolutely
unbearable
to
watch.
She
swears in a thick Midwestern
accent
and
snorts
Claritin
each morning to start her day.
She bullies everyone from her
angelically patient dad (Gary
Cole, “Tammy”) to her weed
dealer. While her abrasiveness
and complete lack of self-
awareness are clear attempts
at comedy, Hope induces more
cringing than laughing.
Poor Thomas Middleditch
(“Final Girls”) seems destined
to play the same twitchy nerd
he always does. This time he’s
Ben, the nervous gym assistant
and Hope’s eventual (read:
inevitable) love interest. Who
could ever love someone like
Hope, you might ask? Only this
guy, who she is relentlessly
cruel to.
“The Bronze” tries to break
free of its formulaic narrative
by throwing in as many plot
twists as it can. It twists and
turns so much that it finds itself
in much the same place where
it began. Loyalties change and
change back and change back
again. People fall in love on and
off the high bars. “The Bronze”
actually does its best when it
sticks to the narrative formula.
But it tries too hard to surprise
its audience. In the end, things
are (somehow) resolved and,
by some miraculous salvation,
Hope is not the absolute worst
person ever.
“The
Bronze”
is
almost
funny. In its quieter moments,
it’s entertaining — a sweet
moment
between
Ben
and
Hope is peppered with gentle
awkwardness and Ben asking
Hope if she tapes down her
boobs in an attempt to tell her
she’s pretty just the way she
is. But, unfortunately, “The
Bronze” relies too heavily on
the
crutch
of
raunchiness,
favoring crude sex jokes and
swearing over well-developed
humor.
So “The Bronze” doesn’t stick
the landing, that’s clear. But
even worse, much like its main
character, it doesn’t know when
to quit.
ABC
Pimp my ride.
FILM REVIEW
C
The Bronze
Sony Pictures
Classic
State Theater
AAFF documentary
shorts not compelling
By ANA LUCENA
Daily Arts Writer
It’s not easy to generalize
the variety of films shown at
this year’s Ann Arbor Film
Festival, but solitary living was
a running thread in the tenth
set of shorts
that
were
screened
on
March
20.
The
strong
production
value
and
quality
of
subjects
and
actors
filmed
was
consistent
throughout.
The
collaboration
of
several
countries
was
showcased
as
well,
demonstrating how film can
allow diverse groups of people
to coalesce. This was most
notable in the documentary
“Le Boudin,” in which German
teenager Elias Greißler shares
his experience of being forced
into the French Foreign Legion.
Portuguese filmmaker Salomé
Lamas effectively strengthens
the authority of Greißler’s story
by splicing it with testimony
from Portuguese serviceman
Nuno
Fialho.
The
striking
similarities between the two
men’s
experiences
brings
gravity to the young man’s
scary time in military service
with another country. The
fact that the two subjects are
so distant in age and country
of origin makes the issue
addressed in the documentary
all the more real.
The highlight of the set is
the
documentary
“Omnia,”
by Amena Al Nowais of the
United Arab Emirates. Omnia,
a
young
Egyptian
woman,
retells a horrifying childhood
experience when she was in
excruciating pain and could
not use her legs to get away.
Her blunt, simple language
powerfully
conveys
her
suffering as a result of female
genital mutilation the way she
felt it, without any preconceived
ideas clouding her truth. This
piece understandably received
the most applause.
Several of the short films
covered
the
daily
routines
of individuals with unique
occupations,
which
became
repetitive. “The Digger” shows
Pakistani
caretaker
Zeib
Kahn, who tends to a massive,
pre-Stone
Age
graveyard
in an Emirati desert. Other
than a few shots of preserved
skeletons in high-tech facilities,
the short film mainly consists
of a lone man traversing the
desert for 24 minutes. There’s
little activity onscreen to merit
such a long running time. At
one point, a car with exuberant
music blasting through the
windows zooms past Kahn.
At that moment, I pitied the
caretaker, who feels obliged
to preserve nature without
so much as a thank you. But
it also made me question why
the filmmaker found his story
compelling.
“Sorelle Povere Di Santa
Chiara,”
or
“Poor
Clares”
in English, tells the story of
a monastery in San Marino
committed to living in poverty,
but it’s more of a series of
photographs than a narrative.
The monastic morning routine
documented
by
the
film
consists of sewing, cooking,
ironing, tending the garden
and taking care of livestock and
crops. With such a mundane
subject, I’m disappointed that
filmmaker Nina Danino didn’t
go beyond the surface of these
nuns. Investigating why these
elderly women are committed
to such a lifestyle would have
made a far more interesting
portrait of their lives.
“Baba Dana Talks to the
Wolves” was more successful
in its attempt to paint a portrait
of an unusual lifestyle. In the
short, 85-year old woman Baba
Dana lives by herself in the
Bulgarian mountains without
electricity
and
most
other
modern conveniences. She has
become very good at identifying
and handling encounters with
the local wolves. The lovely
panning shots of her house and
surroundings capture how she
lives without taking away focus
from its subject. The warm
colors of the film convey the
high regard held towards the
rural woman.
Many of the short films
take advantage of the scenic
landscapes they were filmed in
by using gorgeous establishing
shots. Though this technique
makes the films feel more like
postcards than stories at times,
it’s still fascinating to see the
beauty of faraway lands. This
is most evident in “Solace,”
in which a girl goes through
cycles of setting the table inside
her plain, silent house, and
taking care of chickens in the
beautiful outdoors, alive with
the songs of birds. The actors
never speak in the film, robbing
“Solace” of the opportunity to
explain its intentions through
dialogue. The conclusion of
the film is puzzling, as the girl
takes matters into her own
hands when a source of conflict
is never directly presented.
That being said, the farm she
lives on is very pretty.
The filmmakers of two of
the short films were present
at the screening: “Solace” ’s
Katarzyna Plazinska and “Baba
Dana” ’s Ralitsa Doncheva.
After the show, they discussed
the
sources
of
inspiration
for their work. Their answer
was short: they wanted to
capture the landscape of their
hometowns, both in Eastern
Europe. Other than that, little
explanation was offered to
help deepen my understanding
of their work. When asked for
questions from the audience, it
wasn’t surprising that they got
none. Their films’ thin plots
spoke for themselves.
Though the set of short
films is a mixed bag, it was
a
worthwhile
experience
to attend. It was a fantastic
opportunity to see work from
around the world, in no small
part because they were well
done. The main problem was
the lack of dramatic tension:
why am I compelled to see
people
repeat
what
they
normally do? Hopefully these
filmmakers will fight for their
audience’s attention more in
the future.
B-
Films in
Competi-
tion 10
Michigan
Theater
Ann Arbor
Film Festival
FILM REVIEW
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DAY?
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