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<br /> RI It's `A 7.2.E. - Page 11 for a time-travel romance
<br /> Charming comedy explores what to do when'love at first sight'needs a do-over
<br /> BY ROGER MOORE "About line"takes us into Movie
<br /> Mcewchy-ribune the life they might share,and
<br /> ` finds ingenious ways to test love what•Abouthme'
<br /> The creator of"Four Wed- and the dilemma of choices as
<br /> rings and a Funeral"and Tim keeps discovering all these ***
<br /> "Love Actually"wanders "rules"about his time traveling. Running time:123 minutes
<br /> into"Groundhog a territory /,4II Go back too far,and she won't
<br /> g n Ty' 011-P. 1 t Rateds (afI clanguage and
<br /> wit hip a eNt rn�nce About remember votive met Don't e I content)•Tune'is abo t time travel and 'P' go back far enough,and your
<br /> howit might be applied to find- troubled sister(Lydia Wilson)
<br /> ing and winning over Ms Right � will still end up with a creep players,with Vanessa Kirby
<br /> when love at first sight needs a C. ,..t.-7' who ruins her life Misuse this hilarious as Mary's beat friend
<br /> second chance. gift and you're no better than a and Tom Hollander killing as
<br /> Who wouldn't like a second stalker. a playwright and old friend of
<br /> or third shot at making a killer Gleeson—he played a Wea- Tim's family who takes the gin-
<br /> first impression with a potential 4 sley sibling in the Harry Potter ger-haired boy under his wing.
<br /> mate?That's the possibility that - the son of the great Nighy gets his best roles
<br /> Dad(Bill Nighy)presents to Irish actor Brendan Gleeson. from Curtis,and his father fig-
<br /> his son Tim(Domhnall Glee- He has a wiaming screen Ares- ure here is maybe the sweetest
<br /> con son).The men in their family ' eared clicks withM Adamc. performance in hiscareer.
<br /> sneak off into a closet or Murray Close/Universal Pictures whose gift for chemistry with As in most Richard Curtis
<br /> somewhere hidden,clench Rachel McAdams,left,and Domhnall Gleeson star in"About Time:' a wide array of leading men films,things go on too long and
<br /> their fists,and wish their way makes her the most under- turn a trine gooey,here and
<br /> back to a moment they'd love his sister's pal,hot Charlotte Rachel McAdams is Mazy, rated romantic comedy actress there.It doesn't have the big
<br /> to relive. (Margot Robbie).That's when the American lass Tim almost of her generation Its finny heart-tugs of"Groundhog Day."
<br /> "Try and do something.. he—and we—realize that we meets at one of those gimmick that this is her third crack at Its a needlessly R-ratedro-
<br /> interesting,"Dad suggests.No, could all use a do-over,here and restaurants where the diners time-travel romances(the little mance that would have worked
<br /> you can't assassinate Hitler. there.Fix that first impression, eat in the dark.The sparks fly. seen`Time Traveler's Wife," better as a PG-13.
<br /> The magicof this Richard avoid letting a friend or rela- In the dark.But the meeting the hit"Midnight in Paris"), But"About Time"is a most
<br /> Curtis movie is in both the five down,re-jigger your plans doesn't quite come off.And and that,like Tim's efforts,she romantic way to spend your
<br /> comical ways that gift comes so that ahoped-f'or first meet- Tim,a true romantic,stumbles improves on things this time time at the movies this fall,a
<br /> in handy,and in the romantic ing takes place(or is avoided). and struggles and plots to get around "date picture"about do-over
<br /> and emotional ones.Clumsy, Make that first sexualencoun- a second chance at his perfect The film has the usualcollec- dates that works this time
<br /> awkward Tim tests this out on ter one for the ages. match. lion of cute Curtis supporting around.
<br /> '12 YEARS' I,� 1, his time in slavery. system that appears to alter-
<br /> From page 64 • Fassbender exhibits constant nately attract and repulse her.
<br /> y elk% emotional tumult regarding She has little excuse for her
<br /> in`Hunger"and"Shame"). his character's obsession with own abusive behavior,since
<br /> seen Northup is not the classic, i'.t ���� I a beautiful field hand named she's saner and smarter than
<br /> wronged,noble hero,but some- L t Patsey(feature-film newcomer her husband
<br /> one more realistic,a man trying - ;I; LupitaNyongio)By day he Northup also is smarter
<br /> to keep as much of his soul as - L Ry M.. praises Patsey/s performance than Epps,and often can either
<br /> possible in impossible circum- A y in the field(she outpicks the outrun or outthink him But he
<br /> stances.From the start of his d` Y men)and by night he sexually sees his friend Patsey's will to
<br /> time in slavery,Northup must _ assaults her. live eroding,and it troubles hum_
<br /> suppress key parts of himself, „ , This conflict-roiled man, E,jiofor andNyongio express
<br /> including his literacy based on a real person,is their characters'mutual under-
<br /> A slave able to read threat- - more believable and therefore standing with few words.
<br /> ens a plantation's status quo, • far scarier than Leonardo Northup and Patsey each
<br /> because it gives him more re- ld
<br /> - DiCaprio's sadistic slavehoer recognizes in the other an
<br /> sources for possible escape and in"Django" exceptional person arbitrarily
<br /> �,�tk'
<br /> belies the myth of plantation ' ."`' Nyongio is quietly heart- deemed a commodity.
<br /> owners'intellectual superiority. breaking a a woman unable McQueen's first two features
<br /> s
<br /> But even as Northup tamps to escape abuse no matter how confronted uncomfortable
<br /> down part of his nature,E,jiefor -zz.. iii ""°s' hard she works.Patsey must subjects IRA prisoner Bobby
<br /> never plays him as defeated. Jaap Buiterdilk/FOX Seer hlght face not only Epps'unwaver- Sands'hunger strike in`Hun-
<br /> Northup is watchful,quietly Lupita Nyongostars as Patsey in"12 Years a Slake:' ing focus but his wife's(Sarah ger"and a New York City man's
<br /> poised to act when he sees Paulson)jealousy. sex addiction in the NC-17 rated
<br /> opportunities to state his case But such truths will not lessen shown by a visiting carpenter Though Fassbender plays "Shame"—provocatively but
<br /> and possibly regain his free- the payments on the loan Ford played by Brad Pitt. Epps as too far gone to pretend often in the abstract.McQueen
<br /> dam took out to bring Northup to his Without such slivers of light, to be a gentleman,Mary Epps, surrounded,rather than hit,his
<br /> Northup first is sent to a plantation Northup's perseverance would in her fancy dresses,represents stories'target.
<br /> plantation owned by Ford Though"owning"humans seem tragic instead of adnu- the façade of civility standing "12 Years"hits it directly,
<br /> (Benedict Cumberbatch)who appears to twist Ford's gut,he rable. like the columns fronting ante- and the result is afilmofre-
<br /> recognizes and encourages does not want to challenge an If the sickness of slavery bellum homes. sounding emotional power."12
<br /> Northup's musical talent. entrenched economic system. threatens Ford's mental health, Paulson's expressive eyes Years"ends McQueen's status
<br /> Northup sadly believes he can Yet the glimmers of humanity it has overtaken that of cotton reveal the disdain Mary feels as artful director of thoughtful
<br /> appeal to Ford,sophisticate in Cumberbatch's performance farmer Epps,on whose planta- for the slaves,her husband and films.He's now simply a great
<br /> to sophisticate,with his story. are welcome,as is the kindness lion Northup will spend most of herself for participating in a director.
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