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...According to Jean-Christophe Dumont, an international migration specialist for the OECD, the longer wait could mean the new test actually has the opposite of its intended effect. He points to studies carried out in Europe, the U.S. and Canada that have shown that once granted citizenship, immigrants perform markedly better in the job market than they did while they were waiting to get their passports. "The less certitude there is - the longer the process takes - the less an immigrant might invest in his host country," he says...
...test when I discovered that a possible Vice President of the United States represents all those tragic values. Does it really seem wise, in an age when the bonds between Western countries should be stronger than ever, to give some Europeans yet an other excuse to reject America? Julien Dumont, LASNE, BELGIUM...
...whoopee cushion under the seats of the rich and fatuous. Charlie Chaplin once said all he needed to make a comedy was a park, a pretty girl, a cop (representing befuddled authority) and, of course, his immortally anarchic self. All Groucho Marx required was the divinely distracted Margaret Dumont to play the stuffy rich lady he was determined to unstuff. Those movies permitted their subversive stars to invade the ballrooms and bedrooms of the privileged, if only to bring their inhabitants back down to earthiness, but they still pitched their tents close to the poverty line, where, perforce, the living...
...scenes were hot stuff, but the movie's critical response was tepid. Three war movies also failed to astound: Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a predictable rendering of the 1920 Irish battle of Catholic peasants against the Black and Tans; Bruno Dumont's Flandres, a horrifying but uninvolving study of Belgian farmers committing atrocities in an African war; and Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes (Days of Glory), which dramatized the valor of Algerians who fought for the French in World War II, then found their pensions denied them after the Algerian conflict - an inspiring...
Through Wednesday, Nov. 2. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center. $8; students $6. Tickets available at Harvard Film Archive. The exceedingly unconventional French director Bruno Dumont made people notice him seven years ago with his film debut, “La Vie de Jèsus.” Set in the French countryside, the movie starred local non-professional actors Sébastien Bailleul, Samuel Boidin, and Geneviéve Cottreel, to achieve a natural and realistic portrayal of the area. Its depictions of sex, racism, violence, and jealousy won the movie critical acclaim. Soon after directing the intense, graphic...