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...Best Director: (shared) Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodovar, and Zhang Yimou even though their respective films, ?Notre Musique,? ?Bad Education,? and ?House of Flying Daggers? were shown out of competition...
...Grand Palais. The film selection held some sweet surprises, such as Paolo Sorrentino's deadpan crime comedy Consequences of Love, and a 4 hr. 38 min. Palestinian drama, Yousry Nasrallah's The Gate of the Sun, which overflowed with passion, smart dialogue and a knowing, dreamy poignance. Jean-Luc Godard's Our Music, about the Israel-Palestine conundrum, concluded its dark ruminations by sending its lead character to a heaven patrolled, without apparent irony, by U.S. soldiers. Even the annual French essay in angst, Agnès Jaoui's Comme une Image (Look at Me), displayed a tender wisdom toward...
...health costs, Raffarin has warned that "another four years of doing nothing risks increasing the service's deficit to €100 billion." No matter how the final vote breaks down, a major government shake-up now seems certain, with the most controversial cabinet members getting the boot. Education Minister Luc Ferry is vulnerable for mishandling controversial school reform, Health Minister Jean-François Mattei is dogged by his slow response to the heat wave that caused 15,000 deaths last August, and gaffe-prone Ecology and Sustainable Development Minister Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin is also ripe for sacking...
...same people it is ordering to integrate?" Those are hotly contested questions as the ban heads for final (and certain) passage by March 3. When the law to forbid Muslim head scarves, Jewish yarmulkes, "excessively oversized" Christian crucifixes and perhaps Sikh turbans was initially approved this month, Education Minister Luc Ferry promised it would stop "classrooms from being divided up into militant religious communities." Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin...
...We’ve done this before and people have loved it,” Moylan says, describing the two previous events in which they paid homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt and the film noir genre...