pretty to look at and _behind the sun_ be nonetheless typical of the painfully conservative international film miramax increasingly chooses to bring to u. s. audience . it symbolism be obvious and heavy hand and it dialogue melodramatic and and it performance insultingly broad . it conform perfectly to the feel good foreign fluff that have flood the market at least since _cinema paradisio_ while that be and it embody to a t the safe and low common denominator american conception of what a foreign film should be . a a result of miramax market dominance and more dynamic international film that seek to surprise u or advance film language in some way get marginalize and go largely unseen in the u. s .