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...FILM ANALOGOUS TO THE CURRENT WAR ON TERRORISM? After 9/11, the President asked for a chart of al-Qaeda managers so that as we captured them, he could cross out their names. I had a flashback to the movie where the French colonel, Mathieu, crosses out the names of terrorists, thinking he is winning. I thought, Oh, my God, the President wants to do the same thing--probably with the same degree of success...
...TRAMPOLINE Karen Cockburn, Toronto Heather Ross McManus, Almonte, Ont. Mathieu Turgeon, Unionville...
France may be the proud birthplace of cinema, but many of its directors are looking to the U.S. as the place to ply their trade. Michel Gondry isn't alone in choosing Hollywood. Mathieu Kassovitz made his English-language debut earlier this year at the helm of Gothika, starring Halle Berry. The singly named Pitof, best known for his work in computer graphics, will put the cinematic claws into another Berry film, this summer's Catwoman. And Coline Serreau is in preproduction for a much-anticipated English-language remake of her own 2001 thriller Chaos that will star Meryl Streep...
...Namu's co-author, anthropologist Christine Mathieu, wrote the book based on months of interviews with Namu. And Mathieu's presence helps keep some of Namu's outrageousness in check. Mathieu says, for example, that Namu first described her father as riding into her village on a white stallion and wooing her mother with the line "Hey baby, nice bum." It was a good story?but total fiction. And Namu has shocked audiences at book readings in the U.S. by stating that she would never take a Mosuo man because she can't stand "their stink." Such comments are familiar...
...Mathieu succeeds by refusing to portray Namu as just a simple girl with big dreams. The book focuses on Namu's difficult relationship with her mother?no small hurdle in the Land of Women?and with pretty much everyone else. Namu spent years isolated in the mountains herding yaks with an uncle who never speaks. She jealously punishes her sister by feeding her a sausage of human feces to protest her sister's larger portions of meat. By the final pages of the book, Namu has beaten two people bloody, devastated a suitor, demolished a kitchen with...