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...supports. While the area has enjoyed a striking decline in overall violence over the past year, Colonel Rohling now spends an increasing amount of time managing the complex and fragile relationships that have made this peace possible - and making sure this detente does not unravel every time a partisan crime is committed...
...most recent crime the colonel is dealing with was particularly provocative. On May 14, a woman passed several Sons of Iraq checkpoints as she made her way to the front gate of an Iraqi Army patrol base. She asked to see the company's commander, Captain Wassim Abdul Hadi Saaud al-Sertani. She was a suicide bomber and when the commander arrived, she detonated her explosive vest and killed him and herself...
...Jury Prize (the bronze) both went to true-life Italian films: respectively, Mario Garrone's Mafia expose Gomorrah and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, a bio-pic of controversial former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. The Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne took the Screenplay award for their immigrant crime drama The Silence of Lorna, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, from Turkey, was named Best Director (a consolation prize here) for Three Monkeys, his study of corruption within a business and a family...
Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah is probably the blackest, least sentimental study of the Mafia in Italian or American film history. In its depiction of the Camorra crime family there are no good guys, no crusading cops, no mama pleading with her son to stay out of the rackets. Just ruthless villains and their victims, dispatched without mercy or regret...
...melodrama for a neorealistic study of four sons of a single mother in Sao Paolo. Their have ordinary dreams - to become a football star, to become a religious leader, to be something more than a motorcycle courier, to drive a bus - but they are reluctant to slip into crime or the gang life to achieve it. The mood, which could be brutal, is attentive, admirable, loving. In a quiet way, heroic...