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...film relates how Duras' impoverished and widowed mother struggled to establish a rice plantation straddling the Gulf of Siam in southern Cambodia. Having failed to adequately grease the required palms in the land-registry office, the mother, brilliantly played by Isabelle Huppert, is assigned land that she later finds is prone to flooding from the sea. In her attempt to hold back the tide, Huppert rallies local villagers to build a barrier against the ocean. It's a Sisyphean task that sets her against colonial functionaries who have designs on her property, and a rapacious tycoon, Monsieur Jo (Randal Douc...
Because of the risk in budget, because films cost as much as they do, it's simply harder to find opportunities to take those kinds of creative risks in film. For right now, I think TV might be a place where there are more unexpected stories being told...
...much of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's philosophy did you keep in the film? Oscar Trevino AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...beauty of what he created is that sense of optimism and diversity. It was refreshing to work on a film that had a bighearted approach to the future--to show a future you'd actually like to live in, as opposed to many films where you think, "I'll pass...
...Jewish boxer Salamo Arouch, 86, fought his way to survival as a prisoner at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by winning fight after fight against other captives--keeping prison guards enthralled. He was the subject of the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe...