Feeding the Beast Yesterday the bleary-eyed swapped happy flashbacks from the Time Warner Center welcome-to-the-media bash that was held on Saturday night.
Characterized by excitable editing, dead-eyed performances and a laughable villain (the genre regular Bill Moseley, resplendent in tiara and lipstick), this coarsely manipulative revenge tale periodically pauses the vivisection for rosy, happy-family flashbacks.
And while the flashback to a happy time with her husband feels superfluous, the transition back to the present is handled by her with moving economy.
Finally "Us; a Memory.," by Janine Nabers, takes place in couples' counseling, with many flashbacks of this couple's happy and unhappy recollections.
In flashbacks to happier days spent getting acquainted with her duties at the White House, Kennedy is timid and inquisitive.
This continues for the rest of the movie, interrupted by occasional flash points of lung-busting rage and, less excitingly, by occasional flashbacks to happier days... I wonder whether we'll see this species of movie for much longer — the big, unwieldy feelings-grinder, manned by megastars and making terribly heavy weather of small, unexceptional predicaments.
The film loses a trace of its dignity with the series of slow-dissolve flashbacks of happier times at the end (while Victoria sadly lights the candles on the Christmas tree), but they're minor distractions in an otherwise outstanding film.
Cue the first of several flashbacks to happier days.
Occasionally, Georges's mind wonders and we see flashbacks to happier days.
Dream sequences and flashbacks return us to his heartbreakingly happy childhood before the war, and part of the title's potency lies in showing how long his childhood has lasted, long enough to encompass peace and war.
