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Dominican Rep. Enemies: a Love story
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Comedy. Drama. Romance
A post-Holocaust Jew, living in Coney Island, can't choose between three women--his current wife (who hid him during the war), his tempestuous lover, and his reappearing pre-war wife he presumed dead. This dark comedy, adapted from Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel (Singer was the writer of Yentl's story), charts the exploits of four Holocaust survivors in 1940s New York. Herman, a Polish refugee who was hidden from the Nazis in a hayloft, ... [+]
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"This is a stunning film, richly detailed and brilliantly acted. (...) Mazursky has rendered the struggle of these refugees from hell with a cleareyed compassion that cuts straight to the heart." | ||
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"The director, Paul Mazursky, has gathered a superbly balanced cast and kept the action so smooth that the viewer is carried along on a tide of mystical slyness." | ||
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"Loosely constructed and at times enigmatic, but rich in characterization, texture, mood, tone and meaning." | ||
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"For all his sincerity, Mazursky has ironed out Singer's wicked delight in the ambiguities and frailties of the human psyche, and turned the story into mere burlesque." | ||
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"Mazursky and his co-writer, Roger Simon, have done a difficult adaptation job well, concentrating disparate elements of humour, sex and despair into a tragicomedy of unusual depth." | ||
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"Clearly it's the best of Mazursky's career. But it's something more, the brilliant dovetailing of a writer's intentions and a film maker's mature craft." |
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