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31.05.2019 fri Macau Daily Times | Edition 3345 | 02 Aug 2019 Movies: Luce Books: The Chelsea Girls: a Novel by Fiona Davis Music: Para Mi by Cuco Travelog: Gordon Ramsay Uncharted Migrant appiness? Deliveries app Rappi has expanded into eight Latin American nations since it was founded four years ago, mostly due to Venezuelan migrants fleeing their battered country en masse X2 PÁTIO DA ILUSÃO illusion DRIVE IN Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer CE CAST COMMANDS A PHOTO AP IN TENSE FAMILY DRAMA IN ‘LUCE’ e yourself is a loaded idea Virginia, to raise him starting at for any 17-year-old, but es- age 7. Bpecially for one Luce (pronoun- And everything seems to be going ced “loose”) Edgar, the title cha- great. Everyone loves Luce, ex- racter of director Julius Onah’s cept for Harriet Wilson. Played riveting adaptation of JC Lee’s by Octavia Spencer, Harriet is a play “Luce .” no-nonsense history teacher who In this simmering drama, com- infuses her own worldview into plex themes of race, privilege, lessons — especially those about youth, family and parenting are race and justice — much to the poked at, deconstructed and left annoyance and exhaustion of her scattered all over the frame for students. And in a class assign- the audience to piece back to- ment where her students assume gether however they see fit. It’s the voice of a controversial world a perfectly crafted cocktail of leader, she believes she sees so- vision, talent and script that will mething concerning about Luce. leave your mind spinning for When she finds illegal fireworks days. in his locker, she becomes even Luce (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is the more convinced that there might adopted son of two white paren- be a sociopath beneath the smarts ts, Peter Edgar (Tim Roth) and and charm and decides to tell his Amy Edgar (Naomi Watts). He’s parents about her suspicions. Tim Roth (left) and Naomi Watts in a scene from “Luce” a model student, charming and What follows is an enthralling polite to adults and peers, a talen- portrait of what happens when pivot or new information will be some audiences will just be perfection? Or is there some- he also knows enough to let the ted athlete and has a bright future doubt begins to creep into rela- introduced and you’re left pie- meeting Harrison Jr., who gives thing more sinister happening? story be the centerpiece and not in front of him. Current accola- tionships, made more heightened cing things together yet again. a nuanced and star-making turn And does it matter? Harrison try to push against its theatrical des aside, his background makes and dramatic by the facts of Lu- The script and acting is top notch as the titular character. He’s got Jr. strings the audience, and the origins. In other words, that it him even more tantalizingly per- ce’s childhood and the high-pres- and the four leads (Watts, Spen- an impossible-to-resist charisma, other characters, along both pa- feels like a play is not necessa- fect as far as college admissions sure expectations of his current cer, Roth and Harrison Jr.) all get and it’s easy to see why everyo- ths. I can’t even promise a tidy rily a bad thing. counselors are probably concer- surroundings. Everyone is me- their own arc throughout the film. ne falls for him. But beneath the conclusion, but it’s a fascinating ned (because what else matters rely trying to do what they think It wouldn’t be at all surprising to flirty smile and bewilderment journey. “Luce,” a Neon release, is in upper middle-class suburbia?). is best, which often backfires in see any of their names on awards that anyone might suspect ill of And Onah, who also directed rated R by the Motion Picture You soon find out that Peter and deliciously unexpected ways, lists later this year. him, there’s also a provocative the underwhelming “Cloverfield Association of America for Amy plucked this former child making the situation even more Although it’s might not be all menace lurking. Is it just the nor- Paradox,” has come back to pro- “language throughout, sexual soldier from his war-torn African complex and dire. Often times that surprising that Watts, Spen- mal rebellion of a too-smart and ve his merit and then some as a content, nudity and some drug home and plopped him down in just when you think you’ve got a cer and Roth deliver masterful too-controlled teenager pushing director to watch. In “Luce,” it’s use.” Running time: the tony suburbs of Arlington, handle on things, characters will performances, it’s possible that back against the expectation of clear he has style and vision, but 109 minutes. BOOK IT tTUNES RED SCARE OF ‘50S TESTS FRIENDS CUCO BRINGS LAYERS TO LO-FI IN ‘CHELSEA GIRLS’ LOVE SONGS ON ‘PARA MI’ est friends Hazel and Maxine, stars of Fio- ove songs may be known Bna Davis’ new book, “The Chelsea Girls,” Lfor their traditionally jovial never really got to be girls. Circumstances for- PHOTO AP PHOTO AP tone, but on Cuco’s full-length ced them to grow up quickly, so when they met debut he gives his love ballads during World War II as USO actresses in Italy, a darker tone. “Para Mi” has they were already brave women. Set up to be ri- lighter moments and a chil- vals, they developed an unbreakable bond when led-out hip-hop vibe, but it is they stood up to the atrocity of war. They were Cuco’s searing, often darker stronger together, and they’d always be that way. imagery that leaves an impres- When they returned stateside, they went their se- sion. parate ways, but their relationship’s foundation The 21-year-old Los Angeles was solid and they were destined to be reunited. artist Omar Banos, known by When Hazel left the comfortable Upper West Side his stage name Cuco, has lan- apartment in New York City that she had grown ded himself between indie pop up in — and the stifling family that she had shared and G-funk hip-hop with his it with — she headed straight downtown to the ar- lazy, relaxed and psychedelic tist hangout Chelsea Hotel, a place she knew from album. Maxine’s colorful stories. The two women see- Even the drug references laced mingly picked up where they had left off. throughout never cheapen the Of course, as in dependent thinkers in a time of Cuco, “Para Mi” (Interscope Records) record. “Keeping Tabs” is not change, they had their ups and downs. Maxine only about keeping tabs on his achieved some fame in Hollywood, but was ba- current state of mind, but also “trippin’ off the tabs in my room,” as he confesses, “I don’t sically a B-lister with a decent paycheck and a know why baby but I’m feeling blue.” photogenic face. Hazel carved out a career as Darker imagery in “Far Away from Home” is cushioned with synthesizers, fuzzy electric a theatrical writer but longed to write her own guitar, angelic whirling and chimes that flutter in the background as Cuco sings, “I’m Broadway blockbuster. “The Chelsea Girls: a Novel” (Dutton by Fiona Davis rotting in the image of my head.” They had each other as confidantes and co-conspi- In “Ego Death in Thailand,” the music is spacey, ambient and sunny as his voice echoes, rators, and they fully embraced the eclectic charac- Maxine was her star. Their proximity to success “Don’t look away look through my eyes/Every breath you take another part of me dies.” ters of Chelsea and the creative vibe that surrounded put them on the radar of Sen. Joseph McCarthy The appropriately titled “Lovetripper” is a dream-like love song where he takes his time them. They were having the good time that seemed and his witch hunt for Communists. The Red Sca- singing through the cycle of love. From an earnest beginning when “anyone can see the due to them after their unhappy childhoods. re tested their loyalties to each other and everyone obvious with their own eyes/That you’re special, special to me” to “the aftermath of love But their childhoods caught up with them at the else in their lives, bringing an end to their great and crying eyes,” Cuco’s voice is steady, guiding the journey. worst possible moment. moment together before it really started. “Para Mi” is a promising start for a rising artist. Hazel was poised to open that blockbuster and Samantha Critchell, AP Ragan Clark, AP 02.08.2019 fri NEWS OF THE WORLD Manuel Rueda, AP t’s six in the morning and Samuel Romero is already pulling his bicycle out of a Ismall garage. Venezuela migrants propel The 21-year-old Venezuelan mi- grant turns on his phone and logs on to Rappi, an app throu- gh which freelance cyclists get billion-dollar delivery app paid to make deliveries around Bogota, a traffic-clogged city of timate that couriers can make dy supply of migrants, as well 8 million. He checks his brakes $2.30 to $2.90 per hour during as local workers, keeps them and rides into the chilly streets. peak times when demand is hi- running. PHOTO AP It’s the beginning of a 15-hour ghest. That’s twice as much as Luis Tarre, 60, said he began to workday, in which Romero is workers on Colombia’s mini- make deliveries for Rappi earlier hoping he can make around $15 mum wage make per hour.