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Mother Courage shrewd old woman who makes her living by following the armies of the Thirty Years’ War selling her wares to the soldiers. [Ger. Drama: Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children in Benét, 690] See : Wandering How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It's a treat to see Maura reunited with Almodovar for the first time since 1988's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, but it's Cruz who's a real revelation here--her work in American movies has been decorative at best, but in her native Spanish she's a ferocious Mother Courage of the Anna Magnani school. Kier's ineffective agitprop was followed by the stagebound theatricality of Manu's Spleen 4, 2002, a nearly eight-minute adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. Inspired by Brecht's Mother Courage, Werner's portrait of female strength in times of duress is her most mature creation to date. |
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