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...Ignored and unloved anywhere but in France, the Brooklyn-based director turns from tortured crime movies (The Yards, We Own the Night) to a story of romantic obsession: after a couple of suicide attempts, a young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with a troubled rich girl (Gwyneth Paltrow) rather than the nice girl (Vinessa Shaw) his parents want him to marry. This is one long toothache of a movie, painfully earnest, not preposterous enough to be enjoyed as camp, and a waste of some very good actors. The Paris critics called Two Lovers "sublime," which sounds even better...
...born in Lebanon and brought up in Brooklyn, goes to Jaffa to claim money her grandfather lost in the "catastrophe" (the founding of the Israeli state). There she meets handsome young Emad (Saleh Bakri, the young stud from The Band's Visit) and gets embroiled with him in a crime that might be described as the reassignment of property. The politics are plausible, the lead actors charming enough, and it's nice to see Palestine by sunset. But in its making, this is an all-too-familiar melodrama. Ordinary is the last word one would think to apply...
...hopes for Ceylan's new effort: the story of a politician, involved in a hit-and-run accident, who convinces his driver to take the rap, then has an affair with the driver's wife while the man is in prison. If you think this sounds like some crackling crime yarn from James M. Cain or Patricia Highsmith, don't get your hopes up. This is a lazy study of a dysfunctional family, and we've seen enough of those. But it's still a provocative premise that could be made into a compelling thriller. Perhaps by the Coens...
...angry disillusionment of South Africa's poor has another very visible symptom: some of the world's worst violent crime. South Africa's police have been quick to blame the riots on the same criminals who, every 24 hours, murder an average of 52 people in South Africa. President Thabo Mbeki, whose official residence in Pretoria was burgled in May, has acknowledged the threat inequality presents, but insists his government is bridging the divisions of the past. More than a million new homes have been built since apartheid ended in 1994, and Mbeki has now named a high-level government...
This incident is the third in a crime-heavy month...