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...yielded to a request from the Governor to stop marrying out-of-staters. In Australia, Prime Minister John Howard asked Parliament to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. The discussion in France reaches a milestone this Saturday when Green Party leader Noël Mamère, in his capacity as mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Bègles, will kick off the June season with France's first gay wedding by marrying Bertrand Charpentier, 31, a nurse's aide, and Stéphane Chapin, 33, a warehouse worker...
...front-page piece in Le Monde last week, Mamère wrote that he was performing the wedding in order to use "provocation as a political tool." The Marseillan wedding will follow two weeks later, and at least two other French mayors have said they're willing to perform gay or lesbian marriages if asked. A French public prosecutor last week faxed Mamère a warning against following through with the wedding, admonishing him that "as a person invested with public authority you should abstain from all initiatives destined to block the execution of the law." Mam...
...pursue and fall in love with them. The Almodóvar and Zhang films foregrounded a crucial movie element often lost in Cannes' ponderous auteur gazing: star quality. Bad Education's lead actor is Mexico's Gael García Bernal, who rocketed to international celebrity in Y Tu Mamá También, and who plays the young Ernesto Guevara, pre-Che, in Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries. Salles makes icons of the struggling (but always beautiful) poor of South America until the movie becomes a kind of liberal cornography, but García Bernal commands the screen with...
...most, two young professionals find each other living in the same apartment building and struggling with the same doubts about their spouses. The inspiration for Lost in Translation, this symphony of detail moves slowly and beautifully through the foundations of longing. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. (MAM...
...feminist perspective. This week’s lecture, Monet’s Hôtel de la Roche Noire: Anxiety and perspective at the seashore, will use a modern eye to find this painting in the context of history. Tickets free. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. Sanders Theatre. (MAM...