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...recreation of this war-torn era is undeniably excellent, his grasp of plot and characters is tenuous at best and not enough to redeem the film’s many faults. Newcomer Gregori Derangere is the perpetually bemused Frederic, an impoverished writer still in love with his childhood crush. She’s now the popular actress Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani, who looks like she’s been given a severe dose of Botox). So intoxicating is Viviane’s hold on Frederic that he doesn’t mind being imprisoned for a crime she committed, later...
...military backed off in both Najaf and Fallujah to allow Iraqi politicians space to try and resolve those standoffs through negotiations is telling. While the U.S. military is following the natural instinct of an occupying army to establish its authority and protect its forces by seeking to crush any sign of armed resistance, the Iraqi politicians are taking a more political view - while the majority in both the Shiite and Sunni community don't directly support the insurgents, they have, nonetheless, been antagonized by the occupation. Moderate Iraqi leaders working with the Coalition have warned that heavy-handed military actions...
From inside the Gandhi SUV, there's little sign of looming disaster. Sonia, 57, is sitting up front; her children Rahul, 33, and Priyanka, 32, are behind, and all three are beaming out at a crush of villagers who envelop the silver jeep and whose faces and skinny bodies are sliding across its windows like a human car wash. Sonia opens her door to stand on the sill, and the crowd shrieks and surges forward, a hundred arms straining for a supplicatory touch of her feet. Priyanka waves, and a tight knot of some 100 hands waves back. Rahul opens...
...single, individually wrapped donut. Goodpecker teaches his class with dictatorial control until Lt. Falk (Greg Luzitano) and Evangeline Rasputin (Kristy Leahy) come to arrest him for illegal flyering, but he is saved by the inept but heartfelt speech of his student Isadora (Lara Krepps), who secretly has a crush on him. Though Isadora’s final speech fails to be the hilarious setpiece it should have been, the various chracterizations—the pedantic teacher, the incompetent regular, and the irreverrent newcomer—play well off of each other, and the plot, such as it is, is tightly...
...partner: this year it has twice admitted overstating proven reserves. Officials from ConocoPhillips and Marathon have also visited Tripoli. "Libya is a nice market because of the quality of its crude and proximity to Europe," says Jeb Armstrong of Argus Research. But don't confuse this crush with true love. Says Armstrong: "Russia remains the grand prize...