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In an op-ed piece, the FT said that "abroad he was the most important symbol of the Jospin government's credibility and its willingness to modernise the state by reducing the overbearing role of the public sector."
Throw in a couple of well- intentioned, overbearing grandparents, tearful reminiscing about the poet- waiter's dead sister, and repeated shots of characters gazing soulfully out at the Pacific, and you've got the makings of a movie so overwrought it should only be shown on Lifetime.
(Actually, it's a fat, overbearing Jewish mother who ushers in the apocalypse--a scenario that gave me pause but which on reflection seems more plausible than others I've heard.)
Most critics agree the film is heavy on melodrama, and the father's character is implausibly overbearing.
Sometimes Skeat's tactic when confronted, either with evidence of error--which occurred very rarely indeed--or with a complaint about his overbearing lack of tolerance of those who knew less than he or had committed the unpardonable sin of failing to have both his books and the latest fascicle of the OED at hand, was to go all soft with humility.