last Week at Portico: ¶ Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn gives us a character, Eilis Lacey, capable of replacing the hysterical women in Dostoevsky with a deadly quiet. ¶ Carlos Cuarón’s Rudo y Cursi re-unites the stars of his very popular Y Tu Mamá También, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, but it doesn’t seem to have been taken up by that film’s audience. I found the new picture tighter and more memorable; perhaps what I mean by that is that the story of Rudo y Cursi is itself somewhat more grown up. ¶ And, 0f course, the Book Review review (“Telling the Tale”).

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