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When we meet Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen), the sun is, literally and metaphorically, perpetually shining on him. He has a sweet, sexy relationship with his wife, an actress named Maria (Lisa Werlinder), and he owns a chic, prospering restaurant in Stockholm. Best of all, he has escaped his oppressive family and its grim, old-economy business--a Danish steelworks. But then his father commits suicide, leaving the business a mess, with Christoffer as its only possible savior. As he takes up his task, The Inheritance recounts the shutting down of his spirit--or should we say the flowering of his inner...
Everything Christoffer does to save the business--laying off hundreds of faithful workers, firing a betraying relative, isolating himself from the hugely sympathetic Maria and their child--is perfectly logical, perhaps even necessary for the family and the firm's survival. It is impossible to say exactly when his stoicism becomes a perfect deadness of the soul. All we know is that one day, drunk and abandoned in a vacation villa, he savagely attempts to rape a maid. It is a measure of the film's acuity that that is not the end of Christoffer. When next...
...Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin and former student Maria Shim ’01 suggested that the rising median age at first marriage, proliferation of contraceptive pills and the increasing number of women pursuing “advanced academic degrees” were among the social factors contributing to the trend towards women keeping their maiden names, which they traced back to the late 1970s...
...Maria Garcia is as hip as any 11-year-old in Seoul, Seattle or Sydney. Here at the Lomada School on La Gomera, the second-smallest of Spain's seven Canary Islands, she has a cell phone tucked into the waistband of her trousers, which leave a fashionably bare patch of tanned tummy. But Maria and her classmates are also masters of a form of low-tech communication that doesn't require batteries or microwaves. Along with about 1,800 other schoolchildren on this rugged volcanic island, Maria is a student of El Silbo, the Gomera whistle, a substitute language...
...cooking utensil], sound much the same, as do nada [nothing] and lana [wool]. Context tells you which." To test whether this is all lana over the visitor's eyes, Darias is asked to bring in some of his students. Antonio Ramos, Ivan Conrado, twins Paula and Mirta Rodriguez, Maria Garcia and Raico Sanchez do him proud. Maria whistles Antonio's name. He makes a sound that Darias spells out as fuio, which in Silbo means "What do you want?" She asks him the time. Antonio blasts back that it's 11:30 a.m. Paula Rodriguez is asked to whistle...