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Among the most popular and financially successful Norwegian films ever, Jensen's "documusical" has been lauded at numerous film festivals. One critic aptly dubbed it an Arctic version of Buena Vista Social Club, Wim Wenders' 1998 documentary about a legendary group of Cuban musicians. "The people up here don't take themselves too seriously," says Jensen, himself a Finnmark native. "The farther north you go in Norway, the more Latin the mentality...
...with the Cuban musicians in Wenders' film, the Norwegians' lives and history are entwined with their music. To Jensen, the chorus represents a vanishing group - hardy Norwegians who live off the sea and can sing without irony of ancestral "bearded heroes." There is, notes producer Tom Remlov, "a political core to this film." It has opened other Norwegians' eyes, he says, to the fact that as fishing becomes big business and small fisheries and filleting plants close down, "the people who live in these communities are not being allowed to capitalize on the resources that they believe they rightfully...
Looking back on his tenure, Pryor said he was also proud of events held at the ARCO forum during the past two years, calling the Montogmery bus boycott and the Cuban Missile crisis forums “magic moments...
...story began: “There’s a Communist teaching at Harvard. That might not seem like news here, but this tweed-jacketed professor is on the payroll of the Cuban government...
...interview yesterday Coyula-Cowley expressed displeasure with the publicity and said his goal is simply to help teach Harvard about Cuban culture...