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The story of the travails of a brainy single Jewish female in New York is lauded as a "wry modern fable" (Merle Rubin, the Wall Street Journal ) that shows off Ozick's flair for Isaac Bashevis Singer-style magical realism.
Coppelia was instrumental in the award-winning Cuban film Fresa y Chocolate (“Strawberry and Chocolate”), a daring film about freedoms and revolutionary fervor in contemporary Havana (its title is a wry reference to the lack of choices of ice cream flavors — indeed, of all things — in Cuba).
For four decades, up until a few years ago--when the magazine changed editors and began to emphasize the news--her quiet professionalism, her wry, mildly gloomy sensibility, and her knack for perfect detail were a near-perfect fit.
Plaudits go to rookie British director Richard Kwietniowski for deploying "exactly calibrated bursts of dry wit" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). But the highest praise goes to character actor John Hurt's wry depiction of the writer.
This theorem applies especially to My Son the Fanatic , directed by Udayan Prasad from a superbly wry screenplay by Kureishi (based on his short story).