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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of 8 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.0/10. [7]Rubén Romero Santos of Cinemanía rated the film 3½ out of 5 stars, rallying laggards to join the Mario Casas bandwagon, highlighting the transformation experienced by the actor from Three Steps Above Heaven to The Paramedic, in which he plays a "wheelchair-bound ...
Ardiente paciencia, or El cartero de Neruda, is a 1985 novel by Antonio Skármeta.The novel was published in the English market under the title The Postman.It tells the story of Mario Jiménez, a fictional postman who befriends the real-life poet, politician and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, and is set in the years around the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
Writing Footloose’s book-burning scene. The memorable scene highlights the evolution of antagonist Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), who convinces his congregation to shun anything he deems as ...
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Like much of Jelinek's work, the chronology of the events in the book is interwoven with images of the past and the internal thoughts of characters. [ 2 ] While the English work was titled The Piano Teacher , the title in German means the piano player ; it is also clear that the player is female because of the noun's feminine ending.
The Labyrinth of the Spirits (original title: El laberinto de los espíritus) is a fiction novel by Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafón. This is the fourth and final book in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series. [1] [2] The novel was initially released on 17 November 2016 in Spain and Latin America by Planeta Group.
The book is divided into 22 chapters, each alternating narratives of Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin, the grandson she never knew as he was born after she died. Flora Tristan , illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Peruvian man and a French woman, is repelled by sex, detests her husband, and abandons him to then later fight for women's and workers ...
In June 1808, Captain Horatio Hornblower is in command of the 36-gun frigate HMS Lydia, with secret orders to sail to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua (near modern Choluteca, Choluteca) and supply a prominent landowner, Don Julian Alvarado ("descendant" of Pedro de Alvarado by a fictional marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma), with muskets and powder for a planned uprising against the Spanish ...