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More wise words ... by José Micard Teixeira

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More wise words ... by José Micard Teixeira

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Let These Wise Words Meryl Streep Lives By Usher You Into September

September 1st always has a kind of New Year's Day feel to it, so maybe it's time for us all to make a couple resolutions to push out of summer and into an emotionally healthy fall. The following quote - which are notably the words of great author José Micard Teixeira, and not Meryl Streep as previously noted (our apologies - they are just words Ms. Streep tends to live by and we were misinformed) has been floating around Facebook today ( thanks to this - which still erroneously attributes it to Ms. Streep), and we thought we'd share it. Happy Septembers, all!

"I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I've become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do n ot want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that's why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience."

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Let These Wise Words Meryl Streep Lives By Usher You Into September

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Let These Wise Words Meryl Streep Lives By Usher You Into September September 1st always has a kind of New Year's Day feel to it, so maybe it's time for us all to make a couple resolutions to push out of summer and into an emotionally healthy fall.

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"What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

('Othello', Shakespeare)

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Modern Life Is Depression And Loneliness Panel

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An Evening with Jeanette Winterson (Ideas at the House)

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Jeanette Winterson OBE is one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Across novels, screenplays, essays and journalism, Winterson has taken risks and challenged us to think differently about identity and relationships. At fifteen, Winterson's love affair with another woman was discovered.

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Jenette Winterson discussing DEMOCRACY and CULTURE: "Books are not elitist. They were my magic carpets ..."

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Jenette Winterson discussing DEMOCRACY and CULTURE: "Books are not elitist. They were my magic carpets ..."

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Jeanette Winterson: library books were my 'magic carpet'

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Author Jeanette Winterson tells Channel 4 News that library funding should come from central government's education budget and that books were her "magic carpet" that allowed her to get to where she is today.

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This is the action station. What more do you want? We've got content, we've got your questions answered, we've got Virginia Woolf. Move over Stephen King.

The books are the best of me. When people ask me why I write I tell them it's what I'm for. It really is as simple as that.

In the following pages you'll find excerpts from all the books, my own view of what they are and how they work, and an easy way to buy them. You don't have to buy them but a little retail therapy won't do any harm in the middle of all this art and life.

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Books by Jeanette Winterson, Jeanette Winterson novels, collection of short stories, poetic novels, magical fantasy

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This is the action station. What more do you want? We've got content, we've got your questions answered, we've got Virginia Woolf. Move over Stephen King. The books are the best of me. When people ask me why I write I tell them it's what I'm for.

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"I used to have a lot of affairs until I realised it was like growing cress on a flannel – instant results, no roots.""Love is hard work. We don't hear enough about that. Falling in love is the easy part – it's why affairs are so exciting and attractive – none of the toil, all of the fun."

"Adam Phillips has written eloquently, in Missing Out, on the strange discontent that prompts us to believe that the life we are not living would be better for us than the life that is ours. If only we had that job/house/girlfriend/husband/sex life, etc."

"that story changed my relationship with myself – which is, after all, the relationship all other relationships must negotiate."

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Nostalgia for lost love is cowardice disguised as poetry. It is easy to imagine that if life had moved a degree in a different direction, then the one that got away would be by our side, and we would both be living happily ever after. Memories of holiday romances or stray nights with strangers are part of the pleasure of the past. And I believe that anyone we have loved is someone we should be able to think about, talk about and recognise as a real piece of our emotional history. To me, one of the best aspects of gay culture is that we work hard to stay friends with our exes - perhaps a survival mechanism from the bad old days of the ghetto, but a civilised arrangement, nonetheless. (It will be interesting to see if the normalising effect of marriage changes this.) But recognising the past as our past, and being able to groan, giggle, blush, sigh and play with those memories, is not the same as a corrosive secret infatuation with the idea of that special someone we managed to mislay. Sighing over a fantasy drains energy from reality. What happens in our heads isn't private; it is unspoken, that's all. We all know what it's like to live in the stifling atmosphere of what is unsaid.

Love is hard work. We don't hear enough about that. Falling in love is the easy part - it's why affairs are so exciting and attractive - none of the toil, all of the fun. I used to have a lot of affairs until I realised it was like growing cress on a flannel - instant results, no roots. Adam Phillips has written eloquently, in Missing Out, on the strange discontent that prompts us to believe that the life we are not living would be better for us than the life that is ours. If only we had that job/house/girlfriend/husband/sex life, etc. In truth, the life that is ours is the one we make, and that includes our partners. If we really have been criminally careless with the love of our life, and driven him away, or let her go - well, then - we deserve to be unhappy, at least until that unhappiness prompts such a change in us that the miracle of a second chance (with someone else) is not thrown away.

I realised a few years ago that the script I was running through all my relationships was a narrative of loss. Either I chose, or let myself be chosen by, people who weren't free (those were the exciting ones), or I had bouts of duty where I tried to settle down in a way guaranteed to find me secret-sighing over someone else. Changing that story changed my relationship with myself - which is, after all, the relationship all other relationships must negotiate.

I have regrets about a couple of past partners, but no fleeting feelings of nostalgia for what might have been with "someone". "Someone" is a fantasy. The person I love is real.

* Do you have one that got away? Send your story of lost love to mind@theguardian.com and we'll publish the best.
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The one that got away: Jeanette Winterson

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Nostalgia for lost love is cowardice disguised as poetry. It is easy to imagine that if life had moved a degree in a different direction, then the one that got away would be by our side, and we would both be living happily ever after.

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Author and screenwriter Gerald Di Pego may not be a household name, but he's maintained a surprisingly healthy career penning novels, original screenplays, and adaptations for more than forty years. His latest original, "Words and Pictures," which hits theaters Friday, May 23, puts his passion for writing center stage, as two prep-school teachers (Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen) concoct an art-vs.-words debate to energize their students, falling for each other in the process. Word & Film recently spoke to Di Pego about how he used the Honors English professor played by Owen as a mouthpiece for his own passion for language.

WORD & FILM: From the evidence of the film, clearly you have some thoughts on the negative impact technology is having on our younger generations.

GERALD Di PEGO: Yeah. At the same time, I don't want to sound like an old fart who says, "the old ways are the good ways," because the onrush of technologies is not something you can stop. I always hope there'll be a place for the treasurers of language to find a space, a place where there are still books to leaf through, to pick up and carry around. It's an ancient thing, and I just don't want to see it go away. I'm not a diehard about it. But I do think that if people don't go beyond the computer, they're going to leave some richness behind.

W&F: What sparked this war of words vs. art in you? Was there a conversation or incident from your personal life?

GD: No, this is one of my older ideas that I kept throwing notes into the file for decades. Most of my films, when you knock them way down, are about the struggle between isolation and connection. Connection is scary to people. I know this struggle. I was very shy and sometimes during my life felt self-conscious. That struggle of connection between those two characters is kind of the rock. But I wanted to put them in a world that challenged me. I wanted to be challenged with language. Most of the characters I've written in my films are not necessarily highly educated people, and I wanted to push my way up into that. Part of it was the joy of those movies of the '30s and '40s, where there was banter and wit. I wanted to see if I could do that. It made sense that he was an English teacher who loves language, worships language.

W&F: You give him a lot of great lines, but I think my favorite is: "Words are your gods. And somebody has insulted your religion." Which writers have been your spiritual guides?

GD: First of all, I was a high school English teacher. So I lived it for a while, way back in my twenties. When it comes time for Jack to quote people that he's read to his class, I, Jerry, get to find my favorite quotes! So it was so much fun for me to use Ian McEwan, Updike, andJeanette Winterson. There are some wonderful image-makers out there. Nikos Kazantzakis. At the same time, when I was thirteen or so, I remember walking out of the theater after seeing "On the Waterfront" feeling like a different person. That movie just shook me and made me want to be somebody that could tell stories.

W&F: You wrote the central poem upon which the plot turns, right? How was that experience?

GD: Yes. I've never tried to publish my poetry, but I do love the challenge of the form. I always had in the script a piece of a Mary Oliver poem. We kept trying to get her to give us a release on using it. It got to be late in the game when [director] Fred Schepisi and Curtis [Burch], the producer, turned to me and said, "Jerry, you've gotta write a poem." [laughs] Luckily, inspiration hit me. But boy, Mary Oliver is a tough act [to follow]. At first, Juliette was hesitant because she loved that Mary Oliver passage. And then she came to me later and said, "I read it again. I love it." So that made me feel good.

W&F: You've had at least a dozen adaptations produced as features for TV and film. What was the hardest one to make work, and why?

GD: When I read the manuscript of Message in a Bottle I thought, I don't want to use any of this dialogue and want them to have different work. Can I pick these people up and place them in at least a slightly different context? I had to know how much freedom I had before I could say yes to that assignment. It's always hard. I prefer original screenplays. I love to dream it up and put it down -- so it all comes from me.

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Author and screenwriter Gerald Di Pego may not be a household name, but he's maintained a surprisingly healthy career penning novels, original screenplays, and adaptations for more than forty years. His latest original, " Words and Pictures," which hits theaters Friday, May 23, puts his passion for writing center stage, as two prep-school teachers (Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen) concoct an art-vs.-words debate to energize their students, falling for each other in the process. Signature recently spoke to Di Pego about how he used the Honors English professor played by Owen as a mouthpiece for his own passion for language.

SIGNATURE: From the evidence of the film, clearly you have some thoughts on the negative impact technology is having on our younger generations.

GERALD Di PEGO: Yeah. At the same time, I don't want to sound like an old fart who says, "the old ways are the good ways," because the onrush of technologies is not something you can stop. I always hope there'll be a place for the treasurers of language to find a space, a place where there are still books to leaf through, to pick up and carry around. It's an ancient thing, and I just don't want to see it go away. I'm not a diehard about it. But I do think that if people don't go beyond the computer, they're going to leave some richness behind.

SIG: What sparked this war of words vs. art in you? Was there a conversation or incident from your personal life?

GD: No, this is one of my older ideas that I kept throwing notes into the file for decades. Most of my films, when you knock them way down, are about the struggle between isolation and connection. Connection is scary to people. I know this struggle. I was very shy and sometimes during my life felt self-conscious. That struggle of connection between those two characters is kind of the rock. But I wanted to put them in a world that challenged me. I wanted to be challenged with language. Most of the characters I've written in my films are not necessarily highly educated people, and I wanted to push my way up into that. Part of it was the joy of those movies of the '30s and '40s, where there was banter and wit. I wanted to see if I could do that. It made sense that he was an English teacher who loves language, worships language.

SIG: You give him a lot of great lines, but I think my favorite is: "Words are your gods. And somebody has insulted your religion." Which writers have been your spiritual guides?

GD: First of all, I was a high school English teacher. So I lived it for a while, way back in my twenties. When it comes time for Jack to quote people that he's read to his class, I, Jerry, get to find my favorite quotes! So it was so much fun for me to use Ian McEwan, Updike, and Jeanette Winterson. There are some wonderful image-makers out there. Nikos Kazantzakis. At the same time, when I was thirteen or so, I remember walking out of the theater after seeing "On the Waterfront" feeling like a different person. That movie just shook me and made me want to be somebody that could tell stories.

SIG: You wrote the central poem upon which the plot turns, right? How was that experience?

GD: Yes. I've never tried to publish my poetry, but I do love the challenge of the form. I always had in the script a piece of a Mary Oliver poem. We kept trying to get her to give us a release on using it. It got to be late in the game when [director] Fred Schepisi and Curtis [Burch], the producer, turned to me and said, "Jerry, you've gotta write a poem." [laughs] Luckily, inspiration hit me. But boy, Mary Oliver is a tough act [to follow]. At first, Juliette was hesitant because she loved that Mary Oliver passage. And then she came to me later and said, "I read it again. I love it." So that made me feel good.

SIG: You've had at least a dozen adaptations produced as features for TV and film. What was the hardest one to make work, and why?

GD: When I read the manuscript of Message in a Bottle I thought, I don't want to use any of this dialogue and want them to have different work. Can I pick these people up and place them in at least a slightly different context? I had to know how much freedom I had before I could say yes to that assignment. It's always hard. I prefer original screenplays. I love to dream it up and put it down -- so it all comes from me.

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Catching Up With 'Words and Pictures' Writer Gerald Di Pego

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Author and screenwriter Gerald Di Pego may not be a household name, but he's maintained a surprisingly healthy career penning novels, original screenplays, and adaptations for more than forty years.

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Watch Words and Pictures Online Free - Streaming 2013 Full Movie on Putlocker and 123movies.Short Review: The paintings by Dina Delsanto used in the film were all painted by Juliette Binoche.The greatest strength of this film is it's screenplay with it's honest look at relationships. The relationship between words and pictures becomes the vehicle by which we dive into all the emotional relationships.

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TIFF 2013 Gala Presentation of Fred Schepisi's "Words and Pictures", starring Clive Owen

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Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche star in a comic drama about an English teacher who challenges the school's art teacher to a "war" between words and pictures - and, in the process, sparks an unlikely romance. Distributed by OneLoad.com

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Clive's unbelievable mastery of remembering huge dialogue!!

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A new film by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Fred Schepisi starring Clive Owen as an eccentric English teacher who challenges the charismatic new art teacher, played by Juliette Binoche, in a school-wide debate over which is more powerful -- the word or the picture. A witty and intelligent screenplay exploring the value of good education set against a flamboyant courtship that develops between the two teachers. But the true war is against their own demons, as two troubled souls struggle for connection
Smart, inspirational and entertaining, Words & Pictures is an uplifting and crowd-p

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Words and Pictures - In Cinemas 17th July- AUS

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A new film by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Fred Schepisi starring Clive Owen as an eccentric English teacher who challenges the charismatic new art teacher, played by Juliette Binoche, in a school-wide debate over which is more powerful -- the word or the picture.

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WORDS and PICTURES Movie: Behind the Scenes

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Behind the scenes look at "Words And Pictures" (2013), comedy drama, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Navid Negahban. An art instructor (Binoche) and an English teacher (Owen) form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

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DEMONS (Artist: Imagine Dragons/ Album: Night Visions)

When the days are cold
And the cards all fold
And the saints we see
Are all made of gold

When your dreams all fail
And the ones we hail
Are the worst of all
And the blood’s run stale

I want to hide the truth
I want to shelter you
But with the beast inside
There’s nowhere we can hide

No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come
This is my kingdom come

When you feel my heat
Look into my eyes
It’s where my demons hide
It’s where my demons hide
Don’t get too close
It’s dark inside
It’s where my demons hide
It’s where my demons hide

When the curtain’s call
Is the last of all
When the lights fade out
All the sinners crawl

So they dug your grave
And the masquerade
Will come calling out
At the mess you made

Don’t want to let you down
But I am hell bound
Though this is all for you
Don’t want to hide the truth

No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come
This is my kingdom come

When you feel my heat
Look into my eyes
It’s where my demons hide
It’s where my demons hide
Don’t get too close
It’s dark inside
It’s where my demons hide
It’s where my demons hide

They say it's what you make
I say it's up to fate
It's woven in my soul
I need to let you go

Your eyes, they shine so bright
I want to save their light
I can't escape this now
Unless you show me how

When you feel my heat
Look into my eyes
It’s where my demons hide
It’s where my demons hide
Don’t get too close
It’s dark inside
It’s where my demons hide
It’s where my demons hide

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Imagine Dragons - Demons (Official Music Video)

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Clive Owen & Juliette Binoche Words and Pictures

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'WORDS AND PICTURES' interview with Clive Owen

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Clive Owen and Fred Schepisi Talk Words and Pictures - TIFF 2013

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Clive Owen and Director Fred Schepisi talk Words and Pictures (2013) at the Toronto International Film Festival. Courtesy of the Variety Studio. http://bit.ly/VarietySubscribe

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Words And Pictures (Starring Clive Owen) Movie Review

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Words And Pictures starring Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, and Bruce Davison is reviewed by Ben Mankiewicz (host of Turner Classic Movies), Matt Atchity (Editor-in-chief Rottentomatoes.com), Alonso Duralde (TheWrap.com and Linoleum Knife podcast) and Christy Lemire (ChristieLemire.com).

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IAR managing editor Jami Philbrick speaks exclusively with Clive Owen about his new film 'Words and Pictures,' which also stars Juliette Binoche and opens in theaters on May 23rd. Interviewer: Jami Philbrick Video Editor: Jami Philbrick IAR Managing Editor: Jami Philbrick Twitter: @iamROGUE Facebook: www.facebook.com/iamrogue URL: www.iamrogue.com

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Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche at the Words and Pictures Premiere

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The stars of Words and Pictures hit the TIFF 2013 red carpet and our Beauty Correspondent finds out what it's really like to work with Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche!

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Star Clive Owen Madonna Funny Commercial

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Interview with Star Clive Owen and Director Fred Schepisi - Words and Pictures - Just Seen It

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Guest reviewer Tim Cogshell discussed the new romantic comedy, Words and Pictures, with its star and director.

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Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 4 Σεπ 2014

DVD clip from 'Words and Pictures' starring Clive Owen Juliette Binoche, Amy Brenneman, Bruce Davison, Keegan Connor Tracy, Adam DiMarco, Valerie Tian and Eva Bourne
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An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

Theatrical Release Date: May 23rd, 2014
Director: Fred Schepisi
Genres: Comedy, drama, Romance

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'Words and Pictures' DVD Clip (2014): Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche

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DVD clip from 'Words and Pictures' starring Clive Owen Juliette Binoche, Amy Brenneman, Bruce Davison, Keegan Connor Tracy, Adam DiMarco, Valerie Tian and Eva Bourne " Get Movie Times, Tickets, & More: http://aol.it/1qr23v8 " Subscribe to Moviefone Today: http://bit.ly/15j8XWV An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.

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Clive Owen: New film 'beautifully written, moving' The actor chats with TODAY about starring in "Words and Pictures," in which he plays an eccentric English teacher battling with an art teacher to try and prove the power of the written word.

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- harrassment

- drunkeness

- disability/ chronic disease

- alcoholism

- losing your mojo :(((

- midlife crisis

- work vs fear of unemployment

- plagiarism

- literature & words vs painting & art

- sister as a guardian

- son of an alcoholic as a sufferer

- inspiring, energising & galvanising Ss as a tutor

- Artist

- Writer

- Teacher

- School Administrator/ Board

- Actor (meta-cinema ...)

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Mr. Owen's portrayal of the poet as a self-destructive, macho blowhard fighting a losing battle with the bottle is one of the more compelling portraits of an alcoholic to be encountered in a recent film. Jack, who will do anything not to lose his job, while refusing to toe the line, plays a game of chicken with himself in which the odds of a fatal misstep rise as his public demeanor becomes more disorderly. To buy some time, he commits a disgraceful act of literary theft that only exacerbates his self-loathing and his drinking.

Ms. Binoche, playing a female character who makes it a point not to be ingratiating, either to her students or to her fellow faculty members, walks a tightrope between dislikable arrogance and principled inflexibility. The screenplay is as attentive to her condition, whose symptoms fluctuate, as it is to Jack's drinking, and you admire the toughness required to carry out the physical labor of painting large-scale abstract canvases. The paintings are Ms. Binoche's, and they're quite impressive.

Surrounding and barely supporting these compelling performances is a rickety narrative structure with subplots that never quite transcend perfunctory conflict. One involves Jack's tense relationship with his college-age son. A more complicated and muddled subplot observes the cruel harassment of an Asian art student (Valerie Tian) by a boorish male classmate who mistakenly confuses his racial taunts with flirtation.

Jack and Dina's jousting culminates with a debate in which arguments that bristled with acute perception in earlier scenes are rehashed in softer tones and lose their edge. Before it collapses into something warm and fuzzy and limp, "Words and Pictures" throws out ideas that are worth pondering.
"Words and Pictures" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes some nude sketches, strong language and sexual situations.

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Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche Star in 'Words and Pictures'

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Mr. Owen's portrayal of the poet as a self-destructive, macho blowhard fighting a losing battle with the bottle is one of the more compelling portraits of an alcoholic to be encountered in a recent film.