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In venerable Chekhovian fashion, what happens on the surface only hints at the titanic plates that shift beneath, but the actresses--especially Streep, Thompson, Kathy Burke, and Brid Brennan--are supreme at conveying what's at stake.
Boys in the Band than a gay Big Chill ," says Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly . The New York Times ' Stephen Holden, in dissent, extols the film's "richly nuanced" performances and its "intense mood of Chekhovian sadness."
The terseness, the immense taciturn gravity, makes the note truly Chekhovian.
In the early pages of The Cornel West Reader, he describes himself "a Chekhovian Christian with deep democratic commitments," "a Gramscian democratic socialist," a "non-Marxist socialist," and a "prophetic, Christian pragmatist freedom fighter."
The New Yorker 's John Lahr says American audiences simply can't understand Chekhovian ennui.