"This is a very unique year, with many changes due to COVID, and we will recognize the winners who earned a berth in the 2021 Scotties Tournament of Hearts." "Players/teams that were acclaimed entry into the 2021 Scotties and any alternate players that were not part of a winning provincial/territorial team are unfortunately not eligible to receive jewelry," said Kruger corporate marketing director Oliver Bukvic. The nine provincial teams who accepted invitations after the pandemic forced the cancellation of their respective association championships are out of luck. Longtime event sponsor Kruger Products decided it will only award jewelry to the four teams - P.E.I., N.W.T., Yukon and Newfoundland and Labrador - who were able to play provincial/territorial playdowns. The annual women's curler banquet and full-field group photo should also return in 2022.Īnd in a change to a long-standing routine that Hearts competitors have held dear since 1981, many teams will not receive jewelry this year. The HeartStop Lounge, a party barn with entertainment, food and drink, is obviously idle this year. Many classic traditions specific to the Hearts are on hiatus for 2021. The Scotties Tournament of Hearts - the first of six events to be held in the protected "bubble" environment - has been a success entering the final weekend.Ĭhampionship pool play continues Saturday and the playoffs are set for Sunday. Traditional post-game handshakes are verboten with some players tapping brooms instead.Ĭurling fans and athletes are still thrilled to have the sport back on the domestic stage after a long absence. The Page system was dropped in favour of a three-team playoff.Ĭoaching benches are at opposite ends of the ice rather than beside each other. There are no spectators at the Markin MacPhail Centre due to the pandemic. The field was padded to 18 teams this year for the first time. This one sees Stefano finally abandoning bigotry and the two lovers locked in each other’s arms, declaring their relationship to both their worlds in a climax that’s both unexpected and intuitively satisfying.It's a year of change at the Canadian women's curling championship in the Calgary bubble.
The camera is as loose-limbed as the titular leads of Pure Hearts, which ends as it began - with a foot chase.
PURE HEARTS JEWELLERY SERIES
Nicely nuanced, too, is the portrait of Agnese’s religious instructor, Don Luca (an avuncular Stefano Fresi), who quotes the Sermon on the Mount: “Happy are those who have a pure heart, for they will see God.” The film’s sympathies - that, of course, somebody sexually active before marriage can also be ‘pure’ - are clear, but its thesis is only strengthened by its refusal to paint the religious who think otherwise with broad brushstrokes.ĭe Paolis and cinematographer Claudio Cofrancesco (a camera operator on 2015’s Mia Madre, now lensing features) favor a series of handheld mid-shots, contrasting the comfortable pastel world of Agnese’s church group with the more derelict byways of Rome occupied by Stefano and his friends, including drug dealer Lele ( Edoardo Pesce). Marta apologizes to Agnese after asking a doctor to check that her chastity is intact, and she is clearly burdened by her past, which is never laid out but feeds her paranoia. Characters who have been caricatures elsewhere, like the pious, repressive mother, are never thrown under the bus here. The director and co-writers Luca Infascelli, Carlo Salsa and Greta Scicchitano, critique assumptions about class - the cosseted Agnese isn’t above shoplifting, while Stefano’s parents are forced to move into a trailer identical to those inhabited by the Roma he so despises - as well as religion.
Stefano is trying to leave a life of petty crime behind, but he’s harassed at work by his “ gippo” neighbors, who endanger his continued employment by tearing down the parking lot’s fence and caving in windshields.
The burgeoning romance is deftly handled by De Paolis, and in Liberati he’s found a charismatic anchor, one able to thread a convincing tenderness into a portrait of a kind man with ironclad prejudices.
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