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The N-340 crosses a vast and dreary plain where every available piece of level land has been covered by ugly plastic greenhouses that produce much of Europe’s winter vegetables.
Most pin the blame on the dreary, endless lawsuit; as David Denby puts it, "a movie that reaches a climax with the hero writing a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency has landed in a certain amount of trouble" ( The New Yorker ). Richard Schickel of Time disagrees, calling the film "smart, tough, yet curiously moving."
Still, I have a soft spot for all those dreary Lon Chaney Jr. sequels that ended with the lurching, half-blind golem lugging a slack blonde through the swamps while George Zucco in a turban hisses something like, "Faster, Kharis!
La Línea has experienced a mini-boom since the border with Gibraltar was re-opened in 1985 after a blockade lasting 16 years, but is still a dreary place.
The term "slice of life" has come to mean dreary naturalism, but for the superb Richard LaGravenese, who wrote and directed Living Out Loud , that slice includes fantasy, fairy tale connections, sultry musical interludes, bridges that lead out, and bridges that lead nowhere.