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...Best Actor? Too Many. In most of the competition films, the central figures of agony or ecstasy were men: Daniel Auteuil in Hidden,Viggo Mortensen in Violence, Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, Jeremie Renier in L'Enfant, Nazmi Kirik in Kilometre Zero, Michael Pitt in Last Days, Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking, Mickey Rourke or Bruce Willis in Sin City, Tony Leung Ka-fei or Simon Yam in Election... the list is distinguished, and nearly endless...
...identities will emerge during the trial, which is expected to end in late June. The brute violence and numbing banality of the crimes has jolted even seasoned lawyers and child advocates. "Their children were just a way of supplementing their income a little," says Yves Crespin, attorney for l'Enfant Bleu, a child-protection association in Bagnolet. "Parents and their friends were smoking cigarettes in the next room while men raped their children and the children were crying," says Alain Fouquet, lawyer for 11 of the allegedly assaulted children. "It was like a bridge party, or teatime. It's monstrous...
...press quickly caught on, and after the New York Times and the Boston Globe published a handful of definitive profiles on Summers, his image as an ambitious “enfant terrible” was cemented...
...barrage of shock and fury from environmentalist groups and policy makers. Brazilian officials filed a protest with the World Bank, while Greenpeace took the honor of being the first group ever to call for Summers’ resignation. The Boston Globe dubbed him the “enfant terrible of global liberalism,” and as criticism continued to escalate, the rest of the national media dived eagerly for the story...
...come: a film noir thriller with oodles of plot (the festival rediscovered narrative tension this year), an expos? of child abuse (perhaps a dozen films touched upon this sensitive theme), and a demonstration of masterly verve from a veteran director. Almod?var has for decades been described as the enfant terrible of Spanish cinema. Now he is middle-aged, and terrific...