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The two socialist thinkers published the Communist Manifesto during the revolutionary year 1848, a cri de coeur against grotesque inequality and exploitation that still resonates with readers nearly two centuries later.
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Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
Penn spent 33 days in jail in 1987 for punching a guy, as referenced in his Smith cri de coeur.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
Set in the hinterlands of Alberta, the movie focuses on several teenagers, both living and dead — a haunting that feels like a generational cri de coeur.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
The difference between told something is super-hot versus actual heat is huge, of course, in the same way that using horror in a subversive, socially conscious way isn’t the same as being clumsily beaten about the head with ideas in an eye-candy cri de coeur with a suspenseful soundtrack.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2022
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Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
Penn spent 33 days in jail in 1987 for punching a guy, as referenced in his Smith cri de coeur.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
Set in the hinterlands of Alberta, the movie focuses on several teenagers, both living and dead — a haunting that feels like a generational cri de coeur.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
The difference between told something is super-hot versus actual heat is huge, of course, in the same way that using horror in a subversive, socially conscious way isn’t the same as being clumsily beaten about the head with ideas in an eye-candy cri de coeur with a suspenseful soundtrack.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2022
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