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And so forth--with the effect being, exactly as promised by the manifestoes of Surrealism, a work of total realism.
While other movie companies of the early '30s filmed literary adaptations or drawing-room comedies or musicals, Warner Bros., which specialized in no-frills realism, set Cagney to work in a cycle of social-problem flicks--movies drawn from headlines about striking milk truck drivers, warring taxi unions and, of course, gangsters.
Critics heap praise on Cuban-born Valdés' second novel: The "rambunctious new novel is an appetizingly rich stew, full of the varied flavors of Latin culture … sumptuous …exuberantly translated" (Anderson Tepper, the New York Times Book Review ). Spanning 50 years in the life of a country girl who moves to Havana, the book is "a messy, passionate indictment of Fidel Castro's Cuba, packed with grotesque caricatures, implausible crises and generous dollops of magic realism" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). (Read the first chapter here, courtesy of the New York Times .)
Lacking the compression of the greatest movie making, the realism of films like Ulee's Gold leaves me slightly yawny.
[I]n "You're the Top" Porter does not capitalize on the text's potential for realism.