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...Asia wasn't the only continent that made the 57th session of this world-cinema showcase a successful one. The opening-night film, Bad Education, from Pedro Almod?var, gave plenty of hints about the movies to come: a film noir thriller with oodles of plot (the festival rediscovered narrative tension this year), an expos? of child abuse (perhaps a dozen films touched upon this sensitive theme), and a demonstration of masterly verve from a veteran director. Almod?var has for decades been described as the enfant terrible of Spanish cinema. Now he is middle-aged, and terrific...
...Theatre stage: "The Pianist" for Adrien Brody (the first man under 30 to win Best Actor) and Roman Polanski (at 69, the oldest to win Best Director), plus richly deserved prizes to Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" (the first foreign-language film to win for Animated Feature) and Pedro Almod?var's "Talk to Her" (the first foreign language to take Best Original Screenplay since "A Man and a Woman in 1967). But this is a time of charnel conflict, so the newshawk in me (news dove, really) is obliged to look at the bigger picture of the 75th award ceremony...
...like Brody and Susan Sarandon, wore jewelry designer Henry Dunay's Bird of Peace ribbon; it's tr?s Hollywood to blend fashion and statement. Academy President Frank Pierson expressed the hope: "Let's have peace soon, and let us live without war." These Americans were joined by Spain's Almod?var, who pleaded for peace and "international legality," and by Kidman, the Australian who played English novelist Virginia Woolf in "The Hours": she proclaimed the crucial place of art in times of war. Chip by chip, nationality by nationality, you could hear the showbiz contingent of the Coalition of the Willing...
...largest exhibition hall. The massive structure incorporates elevators that rise and fall through a patterned floor, beneath which miniature human figures are visible. DIED. FRANCISCO ("PACO") RABAL, 75, veteran Spanish actor who appeared in more than 200 films and worked with directors Luis Bu?uel, Michelangelo Antonioni and Pedro Almod?var; in Bordeaux, France. Rabal won a best-actor award at the 1984 Cannes film festival for his performance in The Holy Innocents...
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