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...late last month upheld criminal charges against a couple who failed to prevent a drunken dinner guest from driving home - he killed himself and a family of four by heading down a nearby freeway in the wrong direction. The tribunal ordered Angélique, 28, and Jean-Sébastien, 30 - known only by their first names - to stand trial for "non-prevention of a crime or misdemeanor that causes bodily harm" after allowing Frédéric Colin, 29, to get behind the wheel in February 2000. Tests showed Colin's blood-alcohol level was around three times...
...film markets itself primarily as the story of Rémy’s reconciliation with his estranged son, Sébastien, who had broken ties with the Rémy—a self-described “sensual socialist”—by pursuing a career in international banking. Sébastien appears onscreen as the pure embodiment of the corporate lifestyle: he always wears expensive suits, he carries and spends a lot of cash and he is never without his cell phone...
Predictably enough, one of the major plot twists is that Rémy and Sébastien grow to be more like one another. In his efforts to make his father more comfortable in his final days, Sébastien starts to appreciate his father’s way of life. In turn, Rémy finally learns to appreciate his son for who he is and actually takes the trouble to try and understand the value and meaning in Sébastien’s work and lifestyle. Although this seems to be an all-too-familiar plotline...
...characters bemoan the loss of values among contemporary youth—Rémy’s former history students come to visit him in the hospital, but only because Sébastien pays them to—and a devaluation of the past which they blame upon the uncivilized and barbaric influences of a changing world...
...what highly marketable skill are these Swiss youngsters acquiring? Computerized 3-D animation? Some slick new graphics software? Think again. Like generations before them in the high mountain valleys of the Swiss Jura, Sandra and Bastien are discovering the intricacies of mechanical watchmaking. "Forty years ago, people were learning exactly the same thing," says their teacher Yves Antoniotti. "Some of the technology has evolved, but the basic techniques remain unchanged." Techniques like hand-polishing screw-heads until they gleam like mirrors, or grinding axle-ends down to a 10th of a millimeter using miniature lathes. And the young apprentices...