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Having grown up in a working-class quarter of Venice, Tiepolo was apprenticed at 14 to an academic painter.
Director Mike Leigh's latest film about working-class Brits "trapped in the hopelessness of modern life" (Richard Schickel, Time ) is rated a notch below his acclaimed Naked and Secrets & Lies . The premise--ex-college roommates spend a weekend together for the first time in six years--is overly "modest" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ): "[N]othing much happens, dramatically speaking," says Schickel.
The deal essentially raises taxes on working-class Americans, with the proceeds to fund unspecified social-spending programs.
The most hilarious bits, critics say, are his riffs on masturbation and on growing up as a working-class Latino.
Nonetheless, Daniel Ortega and the boys deserve some credit for a censorship policy that prevented their countrymen from being exposed to Oliver's Story , which they saw as an example of class betrayal (a heroic working-class girl takes a place in the ruling class) and Annie Hall (too occupied with the trivial problems of the petite bourgeoisie).