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...CAPTURED. YOUSSOUF FOFANA, 26, self-styled "brain of barbarians" and alleged leader of a Parisian gang accused of abducting and torturing to death Ilan Halimi, 23; in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Halimi, who was Jewish, was found Feb. 13 in the banlieue of Bagneux with extensive chemical burns, bruises and cuts; he died on the way to the hospital. More than a dozen people are in French custody and under questioning about their alleged roles in the crime, which a magistrate has deemed anti-Semitic. France has demanded Fofana's extradition...
...developing his answer, Sauper provides a luminous critique of the dark face of globalization, showing how those that prepare tasty fillets for Parisian restaurants cannot afford food for themselves. The recurrent cycles of exploitation and “unnatural selection,” as the Washington Post calls them, are framed in an aesthetically rich film, with gifted visually alternating sequences and a subtle soundtrack...
...Macy's hopes to, have struggled. Former No. 1 retailer Sears merged with former No. 1 discounter Kmart to try to right two listing ships. Saks, a luxury icon suffering from mismanagement, misfired in its attempt to go down-market and has put its more lowbrow 40-store Parisian chain on the block...
...Cach? Someone is stalking Georges and Anne Laurent (Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche), an upper bourgeois Parisian couple (he hosts a TV book program, she works in publishing). Mysterious videos, showing a scary intimacy with their comings and going are left at their door, so are violent, childlike drawings. It soon becomes clear that this is payback for a childhood sin of Georges's. But plot is not the point of writer-director Michael Haneke's subtle, creepy thriller, which leads finally to an act of violence that is one of the most suprising and unsettling in movie history. What...
...Henderson convinces the stuffy Lord Chamberlain, played with perfect deadpan by Christopher Guest, to allow nudity onstage. “But what about the midlands?” the Chamberlain asks, to which Dench replies “you mean the pussy?” Too prude for the Parisian approach to nudity, the Lord Chamberlain relents to nudity presented strictly as art; the girls onstage can’t move...