Keywords: Michael Stuhlbarg
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 September 2013
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Jasmine is a tragic figure, and her fatal flaw is that she is entirely self-absorbed. But she is also a victim; the product of a society that expects women to conform to norms that disempower them. It was not her husband's downfall and the resultant material loss that caused her breakdown. It was the many years she spent in a marriage that was fundamentally abusive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anthony Morris
- 19 November 2009
For once in the Coens’ recent comedies not everyone here is an idiot. But not being an idiot doesn’t help serious man Gopnik much, as his world continues
to spiral out of control.
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