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<text id=89TT2577>
<title>
Oct. 02, 1989: Pigstruck
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Oct. 02, 1989 A Day In The Life Of China
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CINEMA, Page 90
Pigstruck
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<qt> <l>QUEEN OF HEARTS</l>
<l>Directed by Jon Amiel</l>
<l>Screenplay by Tony Grisoni</l>
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<p> Hollywood wants to paint an anecdote on a $40 million
canvas. The Brits, in their strapped-for-quid, post-David Lean
days, toil to see how many angels can dance on the head of a
penny. For perhaps a tenth of Black Rain's budget, Queen of
Hearts lays out a beguiling panorama of romance and revenge,
coming of age and coming to terms. Oh, and the niftiest talking
pig since Porky.
</p>
<p> In the cloistered Italian village of San Gimignano, bold
Rosa (Anita Zagaria) is engaged to a town big shot but loves
Danilo Lucca (Joseph Long). In a suicidal swoon, the lovers leap
from the cathedral tower -- and land, in a flick of Tony
Grisoni's supple narrative, in London's Italian quarter.
Ten-year-old Eddie Lucca (Ian Hawkes) tells the story with a
child's wily innocence as filtered through the memory of a
wistful adult.
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<p> Jon Amiel has catered this sort of phantasmagoric feast
before; he directed Dennis Potter's magnificent TV serial The
Singing Detective. Once or twice Amiel is hobbled by the
conflicting demands of a sprawling vision and a thin wallet. The
movie starts out of breath and keeps on running. But that's
O.K.; in fact, for a couple of hours it's criminally enjoyable.
Who would have thought that you could transport three roiling
generations of Italians and get Moonstruck in Britain?
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