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...Jury). At the closing ceremony, Suleiman won a Jury prize: third place. Other awards went to Cannes familiars in good form: a Grand Prix (second place) to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past - a tale of an amnesiac among the unemployed and one of the deadpan Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. The film's leading lady, Kati Outinen, took Best Actress. Olivier Gourmet was named Best Actor for his role in Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardennes' The Son, a touching drama about a troubled teenager and the carpenter whose son he killed. But after...
...frisky, in fact, that Hanson and Rosenberger started calling the dog “Huck” instead of his full name, “Hucksley.” They felt such a spirited animal deserved a less proper title, and thought Huck Finn would be a fitting namesake...
Indeed, this is basically a buddy-buddy, up-to-the-movie-moment story with dashes of the traditional coming-of-age novel tossed in. More Tom Sawyer than Huckleberry Finn, with the accent on a soft center rather than on gritty harder edges, the formerly "re-educated" Dai Sijie's first novel - a best seller in France - is still a diverting bagatelle abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing...
...word systematically eliminated from the American-English lexicon. To deny the usage of the word in any context, Kennedy contends, is to erase the word’s history and, potentially, the literature that captured this history, such as Twain’s oft-cited Adventures of Huck Finn. Similarly, this eradication would endow the word with more destructive power and heighten its taboo. The idea that the elimination of a racist term will eliminate racism itself is nothing more than a pipe dream...
...Indeed, this is basically a buddy-buddy, up-to-the-movie-moment story with dashes of the traditional coming-of-age bildungsroman tossed in. More Tom Sawyer than Huckleberry Finn, with the accent on a soft center rather than on gritty harder edges, the formerly "re-educated" Dai Sijie's first novel?a best seller in France?is still a diverting bagatelle abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing...