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And partly it comes from Pacino, whose epic self-absorption, in this context, makes Lefty seem heartbreakingly vulnerable, even while he's blowing people's heads off.
Trying to fit in with the "cool" kids, she seems heartbreakingly defenseless.
In the New York Times Book Review , Susan Cheever says "the book brilliantly, heartbreakingly" lays out Harrison's helplessness.
And, all the while, Yuri Bashmet goes threading his way across the foreground, a lonely man with an eerie and haunting sound, sometimes quietly shrieking, sometimes singing lyrically--a heartbreaking figure, heartbreakingly courageous--until, by the end, he seems to be quietly sobbing.
Washington Square is said to compare favorably with last winter's revisionist Portrait of a Lady , since it "respects James' complexities and bitter ironies" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Critics also praise its "brusque, energetic pace" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and Leigh's "heartbreakingly good" performance ( People ). The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann dissents, calling the film "ill at ease, uncomfortable, straining for effect."