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...father, who is unfailingly cheerful despite the fact that a stroke has rendered him mute. It's an inherently awkward situation, rendered much more so by the fact that Juliette has just been released from jail, where she served 15 years for an unspecified but obviously heinous crime...
...never easy for an actor to sustain our sympathy when a role is grounded in radical passivity. But she conveys in I've Loved You So Long's opening sequences a sense that her silences are willed attempts to protect herself from her own guilt at the crime - I don't think it spoils anything to identify it as a mercy killing - for which she has paid her debt. She is not quite dead, but she is in need of life support, and when she gets it, in minuscule increments, her response is extremely delicate - not quite hope...
...about small, believable, human gestures which sometimes fail, sometimes succeed, but eventually restore Juliette to something like life. A modest victory that is not presented triumphantly. I have heard this criticism advanced about the movie: that Claudel holds back from the audience the crucial information that Juliette's crime was morally defensible, which implies that calumny she suffers for it is indefensible, or at least too crudely judged. I think otherwise. This is not a movie about setting an injustice to rights. It is more profoundly about Juliette coming to grips with herself, freeing herself from her own guilty questions...
...patriarch of a sprawling family in the north Austrian town of Amstetten, was discovered to have imprisoned his daughter as a sex slave in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, Austria has been locked in an emotional debate over what could cause such a crime. Some have claimed Fritzl's sadism to be a vestige of Nazism's moral corruption, others that the psychological strain of living for years under the threat of nuclear destruction was to blame...
...Kastner's report, a portion of which was leaked to Austria's Oesterreich newspaper on Wednesday, also contains more troubling details of Fritzl's crime. The 73-year-old deliberately never looked his daughter in the face while he was raping her, the report says, and purposefully shunned contraceptives "so that she would always stay with me, because as a mother of six, she would no longer hold any attraction for other...