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The duet, which also features mysteriously mobile monitors and screen images, is a stylized, immensely touching exploration of a long and important friendship.
But if the film doesn't measure up as a piece of historical scholarship, it does manage to be a rather touching exploration of the troupe's life cycle: achieving notoriety, then being torn apart by fame, then being destroyed by forces beyond its control.
I can't vouch for all of these selections, though I urge you to catch — whether now or when it opens later this year — Jacques Nolot's "Before I Forget," a fierce, often brutal, often touching exploration of sex, love and the humiliations of the body.
He writes: "Take 'The Judge' on its own terms, as a touching exploration of a father-son relationship, and you may be disappointed.
In concert, however, his music is rewardingly visceral, a dual exploration of how instruments react to the touch and how musicians mesh with each other.
And in another nice touch, after its exploration of an exceedingly macabre piece of presidential history, the show concludes with a respectful segment on why Lincoln still looms so large.
Remember?," a good-humored exploration of fraternal bonds that is often touching.
Andrew Norriss's Jessica's Ghost, on the other hand, is a light-touch, curiously uplifting exploration of suicidal impulses in teenagers, and of the manifold factors that drive young people to believe themselves worthless failures, better off dead.
