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High Fliers.(Movie review)
Most filmmakers regard subjects like illness and despair as dangerous traps--mawkish sentimentality lying on one side of the high road of art, pleasureless suffering on the other--but the challenge of an impossible subject can bring out the best in a director, and now, after Paul Haggis's mournful and touching "In the Valley of Elah," there are two more dark victories, Tamara Jenkins's "The Savages" and Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." The Schnabel movie is about an unlucky man--Jean-Dominique Bauby, the real-life editor of French Elle, who, in 1995, at the age of forty-three, suffered a massive stroke. Lying speechless and outraged in a hospital ...
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