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‘Burial’ Unearths Small-Town Secrets
Rochelle Krich
July 15, 2004
Toward the end of Nicholas Racz\’s quirky, quiet, noirish thriller, \”The Burial Society,\” Sheldon Kasner, the film\’s protagonist but certainly not its hero, whines: \”Why can\’t anything ever be easy for me?\” It\’s a line Woody Allen might have used in \”Take the Money and Run,\” but while Sheldon has elements of Allen\’s nebbish-turned-wannabe-thief, he is darker, more complex and far craftier. So is Racz\’s film about death and rebirth, real and metaphoric.
Innocence Lost
Diane Arieff
May 1, 1997
Little girls at a San Fernando Valley Jewish preschool report for circle time in midriff tops and lipstick. In Hollywood, a teen-ager acquires a tattoo, a designer backpack and a baby within a year of her arrival here from rural El Salvador. A \”soccer mom\” at a park in Van Nuys chats blithely about buying her 17-year-old daughter breast implants for her birthday. \”This is the real world,\” she says in response to my look of disbelief.
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