Word: francos
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...Sharon Stone and the space between Sharon Stone's legs. U.S. critics had seen the movie months before, and dumped their contempt on it. Yet in the Lumiere Theatre at Cannes, on that 60-ft.-wide canvas, it had the kind of luminosity, confidence and throbbing pulse that no Franco-Polish minimalist masterpiece could match. This, we were reminded, is why audiences in almost every foreign country prefer Hollywood movies to their own: because ours are bigger, slicker - movie...
...film, directed by Michael Winterbottom, dramatizes the relationship of two journalists: Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) and his Franco-Cuban wife Mariane (Jolie), a freelancer for French TV, who's five months pregnant with a child Danny wants to call Adam. While researching a story on the shoe-bomber Richard Reid, Danny was abducted by Islamic radicals. Five anguished weeks later, Mariane learned that he had been brutally slaughtered. The film is based on Mariane's memoir, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, which she wrote to explain her husband...
...humanitarian background. "The Foreign Minister is now partly a protocol position, partly a humanitarian aid and development role," says Jean-Christophe Rufin, an award-winning author, former diplomat and one-time vice president of the M?decins Sans Fronti?res. "You're not going to see Kouchner riding herd on Franco-German relations, but that's not what he's interested in anyway...
Spain in the war-torn '40s is the setting for this anti-Franco, pro-magic fairy tale. If you were wondering what all the critical rapture and Oscar nominations were about, make your move now. Guillermo del Toro's fable is definitely not for kids, but it is a fable--about a child (Irana Baquero, above) who escapes from real nightmares into an eerie, fulfilling wonderland--that is as potent and scary as the great early Disney cartoon features. Except there is no happy ending...
...however, Sarkozy is keen to start diplomatic relations with Washington on a clean slate, as his Sunday night victory speech noted. In it, Sarkozy surprised observers who had expected a focus on domestic matters by dedicating nearly half his discourse to international topics - beginning with Franco-American ties. "I want to make an appeal to our American friends to tell them that they can count on our friendship, which has been reinforced by the tragedies of history that we've faced together," Sarkozy said to cheers of approval from his supporters. "I want to tell them that France will always...