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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...
...Middle East, and Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are demanding that Netanyahu sign on. Netanyahu has hinted that he does not oppose the creation of a Palestinian state, but aides say he must move cautiously because his religious-nationalist coalition partners refuse to give away land...
...kids watch a DVD, an elder daughter puts a hand on the screen to hide a character's immodest dress. Watching Jim-Bob criticize Hollywood moviemaking--"It might make money for companies, but it's not good for individuals"--you're staring at the strange no-man's-land where conservative and liberal anticorporate rhetoric overlap...
...Benedict arrives in Israel during an eight-day visit to the Holy Land, his first since becoming Pontiff. The trip is a near carbon copy of one made by his predecessor John Paul II in 2000. The Vatican hopes to use the trip to build on its 44-year rapprochement with the world's Jews after centuries of conflict and persecution. During his papacy, John Paul became the first modern Pope to visit a synagogue, recognize the state of Israel and apologize for the role Christians played in the Holocaust...
...senior interreligious adviser for the American Jewish Committee, notes that while "flash points happened with John Paul II as well, you always knew the Pope was committed to solving them. With Benedict, there's a sense of concerned bewilderment." Even after Benedict returns to the Vatican from the Holy Land, it's likely that he will still have to address skepticism about whether he shares John Paul's commitment to strengthening ties between Catholicism and Judaism--or whether he is willing to let his papacy be a tepid transition into a period of interfaith neglect...