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...charms to completely seduce them. These include 6-ft. garden eels who plant themselves en masse in the sea bottom like a field of slithery reeds, the leafy sea dragon, an animal so peculiar-looking E.T. would feel bad for it, and several sequences of steamy cuttlefish mating. (A child in the screening I attended asked if "that's why they were called cuddle-fish...
...approach it takes to its subject. There's a dutiful hat-tip to the threat coral reefs face from global warming, without any substantive advice on what a concerned moviegoer could do about it. Nevertheless, it's quite a parental high to see wonder on the face of a child. Even behind the weirdo glasses...
...child born on Friday the 13th will be unlucky for life...
From a distance, it looks like an ordinary movie poster. Pasted to a bus shelter wall along Madrid's central Calle Segovia, it depicts a thin child looking upward toward credits printed in that look-at-me font that film-publicity posters seemingly always use. It's only when you get close enough to read the title credits that you realize something is amiss. "Ask Al Gore," one passerby queried his companion. "That's the name of a movie...
...rebellion, framing it as opposition to Kinshasa's cooperation with the génocidaires of the FDLR and offering a moving history of the persecution of the Tutsi. But like many militia leaders, Nkunda and his men have been accused of war crimes. I met a number of child soldiers who served in his militias, and his soldiers have been accused of participating in massacres in the villages of Bukavu and Kiwanga. (See pictures of Congo's child soldiers...