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With his images, Davies achieves an inwardness, realizes a psychological imagination through poignant physical detail, that's of a kind with Tolstoy's writing.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet With his images, Davies achieves an inwardness, realizes a psychological imagination through poignant physical detail, that's of a kind with Tolstoy's writing.

Some of the images are very well known, like the parlormaid series of the 1930's, in which the mores of prewar upper-class English households are seen through poignant views of their servants.

By now, such stories may seem familiar, but through poignant interviews and photographs, the filmmakers -- and of course their subjects -- evoke a fresh stab of sorrow for the terrible losses, and admiration for those lucky and brave enough to endure.

Nanni Moretti, an actor and director who has evolved from mischievous comedy ("Dear Diary") through poignant domestic drama ("The Son's Room") to become Italy's leading cinematic social critic, is represented by "We Have a Pope," in which he plays a psychoanalyst asked to treat a newly elected pontiff (Michel Piccoli) with a serious (and quite funny) case of cold feet.

Within five years of her arrival in the United States, she published two more books, which address these issues through poignant accounts of the abuse and adversity she experienced as a Somali Muslim female, as an apostate, and as an internationally prominent critic of Islam.

The voices are distorted, but what comes through is a poignant, bawdy interview of sorts.

Soloist Nikolaj Znaider's meticulously judged vibrato glows through the poignant Romance of Korngold's Violin Concerto while Valéry Gergiev works his quivering magic with the Wiener Philharmoniker.

That inert mask, with human eyes peering through, is poignant and almost metaphysically disturbing: a demonic mixture of the mechanical and the animate.

But more than that, this funeral did what such occasions are supposed to do: provide lessons, through stories poignant and humorous, in the essence of a life well lived.

Don't take your parents for granted JP goes through a poignant journey when his father dies of a 'hearters' (heart-attack), and his original family home is sold.