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...Welcome to Pristina, have a nice day," the border policeman greets Arta Dobroshi as she arrives at the airport of Kosovo's capital. What would seem like a simple polite gesture to most, still strikes the Kosovo Albanian actress as odd. She had grown up in Pristina during the country's fight for independence in the '90s, when Serbian Security Forces carried out a campaign of repression and violence against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians. And while the violence is over, the memories are still painfully fresh. "Not long ago, I used to live in constant fear of the police...
...Arta Dobroshi didn't waste time pondering the tragedies she had witnessed. Instead, she threw herself into acting. She took roles in the local theater and Albanian movies, and finally caught the attention of the Dardenne brothers, whose movies Rosetta (1999) and L'Enfant (2005) had already each won a Palme d'Or at Cannes. They invited her to an audition for the lead for The Silence of Lorna. And if a war couldn't stop Dobroshi from pursuing her acting career, the fact that the only French she knew was the days of the week wouldn't stop...
...Already two-time Palme d'Or winners for Rosetta in 1999 and L'Enfant in 2005, the Belgian brothers are back with another underclass minimalist melodrama, this time set in the polyglot city of Liege. An Albanian girl (Arta Dobroshi) is in an arranged marriage with a drug addict to get her ID; the scheme of the criminals who control her is to kill off the junkie so Lorna can be sold into marriage with a rich Russian who also needs an ID. The film is an improvement on the formulaic L'Enfantand boasts an impressively naturalistic performance by Dobroshi...
Larry seldom gets angry away from the strip, but when he does it usually involves ??. "The Harvard athletic department couldn't care less if we slipped off the face of the ?arta. Most of the coaches downstairs in the office of the INB rarely come up here to watch a match. And when they do, it is usually because one of their projectors has broken, and they don't know what t???e Larry said...
...insists on a strictly paleontological presentation. One side, mainly distinguished by the presence of Eugene Ormandy, plays Bach with a flourish and sensuality better saved for Wagner; the other side, which at its extreme is manned by cliques of musical pedants who play in ensembles with names like Pro Arta Antarctica, believes Bach must never be played away from the harpsichord and organ. In the artistic center of the interpretive storm are a number of impeccably good pianists who play Bach's music better than it has been played since Mendelssohn resurrected the St. Matthew Passion...