Adult Sex and Sexuality
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So insane it approaches a sort of mad brilliance, this full-length Cartoon Network spinoff must have been made with chemical enhancement in mind. Enter with a clear head at your own risk.
The main characters in the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" series are Master Shake, a moronic milk shake; Meatwad, a sweetly stupid meatball, and Frylock, a sarcastic container of French fries. The plot - which finds the trio facing off against a crazy scientist and his mystical exercise machine - is proudly useless, except as a starting point for random sex jokes, scatological riddles, and non sequiturs beyond all comprehension. There's nothing here for kids, or, for that matter, anyone who claims to be an adult. But if the title makes perfect sense to you, the movie probably will, too.
Drama about a Scottish security guard who takes revenge on the man who destroyed her life. At the Lincoln Plaza and Landmark Sunshine (1:53). Not rated: Nudity, sex, language.
If you think about it too closely, Andrea Arnold's jarring feature debut doesn't quite hold up. But chances are you'll be so focused on her lead, Kate Dickie, that you won't even notice.
Dickie has already won awards for her portrayal of Jackie, a security camera operator in Glasgow. One day, while scanning her boring bank of screens, she notices a familiar face. With a shock of horror, she realizes she's looking at the man who carelessly shattered her life years before. Unable to simply sit and watch him, she feels compelled to force a confrontation.
Though Jackie's desperate actions, and the unlikely consequences, do feel somewhat contrived, the movie's intense focus skillfully exposes the raw pain just under the skin of a seemingly ordinary citizen.
Drama about the overlapping lives of six lonely people during a Paris snowstorm. At Lincoln Plaza and IFC Center (2:00). Not rated: Mature themes. In French with subtitles.
Alain Resnais directs this slight but evocative story, an equally sad and funny adaptation of British playwright Alan Ayckbourn's play (moving the location from London to Paris) in which six characters spend a snowstorm trying to overcome loneliness. Snow falls around them throughout the film, symbolizing the coldness of their isolation, and it is still falling by the end.
In the two hours' running time, we come to know and like most of the six, particularly the gentle real estate agent, Thierry (Andre Dussollier), and his assistant, Charlotte (Sabine Azema), a devout woman with a private passion for exhibitionism. The taped religious programs she gives to Thierry include brief inserts of her stripping for the camera.
Charlotte also strips for a cranky, bedridden old man, whose reports of her performance are taken by his son for hallucinations and land him in an old folks home. The film is beautifully shot and edited, but these emotional snapshots won't stay long in the memory.
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