What these movies really need are cheeky athletes as their heroes, not actors lugubriously acting.
A stolid, jowly man whose face seems lugubriously appropriate to Israel's dire economic straits, Yigal Hurvitz, 62, who resigned as Finance Minister on Sunday, seems to thrive on.
Misha is trapped (for legal reasons) in his homeland, and his longing--plus vodka--powers this endlessly inventive, lugubriously funny post-Soviet picaresque.
Terence Davies in Village Voice Davies concludes another tour of failed urban development by citing "the British genius for making 'The Dismal' -a national characteristic he immediately demonstrates with a lugubriously hummed version of Brahms's Lullaby. No nostalgic Penny...