Not exact matches
Set in the»60s, that
halcyon era of political action and cultural definition evoked in Sayles» first
film, this story of an ambitious Jewish high school student's affair with a dapper Italian - American petty criminal renders assimilationist concerns through the tender prism of a love story.
While they recount their stories, the
film drifts between the bloody end of World War II and the gilded,
halcyon days when their destinies first crossed.
Opie got the idea for the
film in the nineties, but, as often happens with her projects, it took on a new significance for her as she made it, with the election of a President who'd promised to return America to the
halcyon days before feminism, globalism, and multiculturalism.