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...overarching influence seems to be Charles Dickens. Dickens’s London has given way to Mumbai, an overpopulated city torn between poverty and globalization. Jamal and Salim are a regular Oliver and Artful Dodger. They narrowly avoid danger at every turn and face down caricatured villains like Maman (Ankur Vikal), a creepy Michael Jackson look-alike who profits from the money his orphans bring in from the streets.The difference between the orphans in “Oliver Twist” and those in “Slumdog” is that Boyle allows his to grow up. Different actors...
...long cold war between mother and son suddenly turned white-hot in the run-up to the May 7 publication of The Innocent, an autobiographical book by Houellebecq's maman, Lucie Ceccaldi, 83. In it, Ceccaldi calls her boy a liar, impostor, and parasite "ready to do whatever it takes to attain fortune and fame." Excerpts and previews of the tell-all tome have generated major interest in France, as critics and readers alike gaze upon the spectacle of the nation's most famously jaded and cynical Bohemian being ridiculed in public by a mother who admits in disgust...
...true. Yet for an actress keen to establish a cinematic identity all her own, it's not easy emerging from the shadow of a larger-than-life mother. In addition to looking like her mom, Berry exhibits the same compelling presence onscreen. But Berry takes the inevitable comparison to maman in stride. "Her long, successful career in acting is something I'm both proud of and comfortable with," says Berry. "Like most children, there's enough about me as an individual to distinguish myself from my parents. And so far, that seems to be working as far as acting goes...
Early in Emmanuel Dongala’s Little Boys Come from the Stars, Matapari, the young Congolese protagonist, confides, “Honestly, I was almost never born. Maman left the hospital with me still in her womb.” As the youngest of triplets, baby Matapari, whose name means “trouble,” is an anomaly in his village. The midwife and local amateur mystic suspects he is a vengeful ancestor reincarnate, while the town priest stages an exorcism on the baby...
...been transformed into a 115-ft.-high entrance hall, where visitors walk down a 75-ft.-wide ramp and encounter three enormous Louise Bourgeois towers, I Do, I Undo and I Re-do, comprising rusting spiral staircases and convex mirrors. On a bridge overhead is her gargantuan spider, Maman. All were commissioned for this space. The third section still houses transformers and switches that hum like a site-specific sound installation. A perfect, friendly backdrop for the down-and-dirty exploits of modern...