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England's Yorkshire dales have their bleak moods, but they're not nearly as haunted as those that drive the melancholy head of the Eastvale murder squad. In his 15th procedural, Strange Affair, Banks must plumb his own brooding depths to unravel the disappearance of his brother. The crimes in this series can be grisly, but pleasure comes from watching the nuances of Banks' character rise to the surface...
...Firouz does not believe the pullout will boost Israel's security. "There'll be Palestinian gang-wars over the evacuated territory. The Israelis will then return to Gaza." Nevertheless, Firouz - the last of Dugit's settlers to leave - found a ray of sunshine in his bleak day. That morning, when the Israeli soldiers handed him his evacuation notice, they also offered to assist with the move. "They helped me dig out all the trees from my garden and plant them in my new home. Their troops, their trucks and their tractors were all at my service, awaiting my orders...
...defiantly acts as if nothing has changed, washing the dishes, tidying the living room, settling down to write end-of-year reports on her speech-therapy students. Out in their nearby hothouses, her husband Sammy, 56, is resolutely prepping the sandy soil for the next vegetable crop. But their bleak eyes, full of anger and pain and loss, tell the real story...
...small, glowing gem of a movie. Persona 1966; Ingmar Bergman A famous actress falls silent, unable to speak of and to the world's brutalities and banalities. Her nurse fills the emptiness with chipper chatter, eventually talking herself into her patient's tragic view. Bergman has never been more bleak, austere, enigmatic or hypnotic. Chinatown 1974; Roman Polanski Dewy-fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes - of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best...
...panel of four Iraqi academics, including the President of the University of Baghdad, painted a bleak picture of the state of Iraqi higher education on Monday evening, but said they were confident that a stable system of education could be rebuilt in the war-torn country...