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Filling out the 2009 ballot are Photeine M. Anagnostopoulos ’81, Joshua S. Boger, Morgan Chu, Mark D. Gearan ’78, Margaret A. Levi, Cristian Samper K., and Robert L. Freedman...
...Rasumussen was not alone in exiting the race Wednesday night, however: the entire Cofidis team pulled out after acknowledging one of its riders, Italian Cristian Moreni, had tested positive for testosterone...
...prize Palme d'Or, presented by visiting Hollywood royalty Jane Fonda, went to 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu's exemplary Romanian drama about a young woman seeking an illegal abortion for her college roommate in the waning says of the Ceausescu regime. That was an excellent choice, and more or less expected for the strong, grim film that had earned a consensus of critical esteem, and has been picked up for distribution around the world (including the U.S.). It was also a tribute to a country whose cinema industry is on the rise; another Romanian effort, Cristian...
...Surprises, too, from Romania-indeed, some of the greatest pleasures of festivalgoing are such unexpected ones as Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. It is set in 1987, during the final days of the Ceausescu regime, when the whole country seems to be in a sour mood. But politics are in the background of this taut, fraught drama about what goes wrong when a college student (Laura Vasiliu) seeks an illegal abortion. She and her roommate (Anamaria Marinca) are led to the ironically named Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), a stolid fellow with a sulfurous whiff...
...three very good films in the first days of the 60th Cannes Film Festival struck us. Their perplexities are part of their power. One of them Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, is slated to open in the States this fall. The other two - Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days and Andrei Zvyagintsev's The Banishment - have won enough acclaim here to give them a good chance of showing up in North American theaters, or at least the major film festivals, later this year...