Welles's mercurial spinning of his whimsical and profound tales, realized with his dazzlingly kaleidoscopic sense of film editing, playfully fuses the trivial and the titanic into a virtual artistic manifesto.
The result is lithe and quietly profound: a tale about the magic of adolescence and the passing strangers who help tip us into adulthood in ways we don't become aware of until much later.
There's nothing profound about the tale he tells, but it is attractively open and unsentimental about the lethal truth that there's no going back after that one reckless act.
These and other compelling testimonies make for a profound and powerful tale, which strikes at the heart of what it is to be, not only a twin, but also a human being and reminds us why, as the tenth anniversary approaches, the world can never forget the events of September 11 2001.
Taking place before and after a pandemic that irrevocably alters our entire society, it's a profound and unforgettable tale of how people stay connected and find solace in art, and each other, at the end of the world.
After these films, it is something of a relief to watch Kenneth Branagh's new Cinderella, a movie that trusts the original tale's profound simplicities.
Shelton's profound and hugely entertaining tale of a boy and a bear sailing nowhere in particular is full of wonderful jokes and sarcastic asides, not to mention illustrations that you end up staring at for ridiculously long periods of time.
Gould's "Spinning Straw Into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life," published earlier this year, articulates the many and profound connections between traditional tales and contemporary novels and films.
This tale is a profound blow to the European Union itself -- a symbol of the continent's shifting political prospects.
