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That, at least, was the solution proposed in the two works that dominated the 56th Cannes Film Festival. One picture came in with all the hype: Dogville, Danish director Lars von Trier's upending of Our Town into the tale of a small-minded Colorado community that torments a beautiful stranger (Nicole Kidman) and fully earns its violent comeuppance. The other film arrived with little fanfare but walked away with the major awards. Elephant, which transposes the Columbine, Colo., massacre to an Oregon high school, won the Palme d'Or as top film and the Best Director prize...
...Amount the Danish Parliament allocates each year for Crown Prince Frederik's household...
...vivid visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just to survive but to save others. Dogville may have had the big buzz at Cannes, but Belleville was the great news. Von Trier disappointed his fans by getting shut out at award time. But another Danish auteur did have reason to be there and be pleased: Christoffer Boe, director of Reconstruction, which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature. As he accepted his prize, Boe made this plea into the ether: "Vincent Gallo, don't give up! We need to fight conventional filmmaking." Someone...
...news that the country had been named a terrorist target in an audiotape attributed to Ayman al-Zawahiri. The al-Qaeda No. 2 was railing against the war in Iraq, which Norway actually opposed. Most likely, it was a case of fuzzy geography. "Of course he means Denmark," a Danish terrorism expert told one reporter. Shaken Country ALGERIA Angry earthquake survivors criticized the government for what they said were inadequate rescue efforts and blamed shoddy construction work for the high death toll. The devastating quake killed around 1,900 people and injured at least 7,000. The rescue...
LURPAK, a Danish butter, has the right amount of salt and is rich, but not too rich...