Childhood ends, this time forever, with tears and howls, swirls of smoke, the shock of mortality and bittersweet smiles in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the grave, deeply satisfying final movie in the series.
Earlier, Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak said he was "deeply concerned with graves found on Malaysian soil, purportedly connected to people-smuggling".
Of the dead, packed tight in a mass grave dug deeply into red soil, 44 were children.
"Going through the motivated decisions, we found them to be deeply flawed and raises grave doubts on whether any decision-making body of FIFA has sufficient independence to ensure a fair decision based solely on evidences and applicable laws.
(Dargis) ★ 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2' (PG-13, 2 10) A grave and deeply satisfying end to the landmark series that comes with tears and howls, swirls of smoke, the shock of mortality and bittersweet smiles along with a script by Steve Kloves and direction from David Yates.
(Paul Brunick) ★ 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2' (PG-13, 2 10) A grave and deeply satisfying end to the landmark series that comes with tears and howls, swirls of smoke, the shock of mortality and bittersweet smiles along with a script by Steve Kloves and direction from David Yates.
(Catsoulis) ★ 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2' (PG-13, 2 10) A grave and deeply satisfying end to the landmark series that comes with tears and howls, swirls of smoke, the shock of mortality and bittersweet smiles along with a script by Steve Kloves and direction from David Yates.
These lines, rather than the more pressingly political lines around them, are quintessential Zagajewski, insisting on mixing the deeply playful with the highly grave, finding phrases such as "the dead don't have much to say", which even in translation remains oddly affecting in its calm mystery, wry acceptance and slow, sly shrug.
"It's very raw still and while maybe they were fine watching their own story, when they saw something like Kathleen Armstrong talking to her husband Charlie at his grave, they were deeply moved," she said.
Now he's digging graves, and he's deeply angry and humiliated.
