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Director Bille Woodruff uses the relations among his female characters to highlight racial diversity, conflict, and integration. The attempts of Lynn—the only white hairdresser at the shop—to assimilate with the predominantly African American group of hair stylists is handled interestingly and honestly by Woodruff...
The day after that report came out, three senior French officials took the battle to Brussels, demanding that French be made the official language of the E.U. justice system. Arguing that French "reduced the risks of differing interpretations" in a way no other language could, the manifesto - authored by Acad...
The best defense of French may be a strong offense. Rather than using laws and quotas to carve out a safe space for French, why not use the language to thrill the world? Crowd-pleasing French films like the 2001 smash hit Amélie fight American cultural hegemony. (Am...
Tobacconists are fuming over his new cigarette taxes, due to rise 40% by January. Medical workers are wary of his plans to overhaul France's health-care system. Actors and stagehands, outraged by his tightening of their unemployment benefits, shut down the summer culture season. Strikes by teachers and transport...
Primary Colors was supposed to be the Bill Clinton movie a clef of 1998, but the recently released Bille August film of Victor Hugo's 1862 epic Les Miserables, with Liam Neeson and Geoffrey Rush, may better parallel the President's saga.