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...representative of the U.S. Frenchman Benjamin Bechaux, 24, who just completed his studies at the prestigious French university Sciences Po, also expects a pick-and-choose approach toward the U.S. He spent nine months as an intern at the French consulate in Houston and came away with an indelible portrait of America's complexity. "The whole way of life - from your air-conditioned car to your air-conditioned job, then to an air-conditioned burger joint - this is the antithesis of what we want in France." But he noted that Houston, the heart of Bush country, has a Democratic mayor...
...Jesus Camp seems to me most interesting (and poignant) as a portrait of denied and even desecrated childhood. I am not myself a religious believer. That said, however, I think parents who do believe have an absolute right to introduce their children to whatever religion they follow - but gently so. Sunday school is fine. So are the instructions for confirmation that all religions offer. But the explicit politicization of religious belief that this film shows taking place is wrong. So is the fact that it appears to make religion the sole metaphor through which they apprehend a complex world...
...however accurate the portrait of the royals in The Queen, the first impression the movie gives is one of cool, devastating satire. Or perhaps Elizabeth and her family really are as drab as the film paints them! They don't aspire to glamour; they renounce it. Cloistered at Balmoral, knitting and nattering in their plain wool sweaters, caring more for their pets than for their children, the Royal Family seems a parody of the pettiness and insularity of the English middle class. They might be the extended clan of Wallace and Gromit or cousins of Mrs. Proposition and Mrs. Conclusion...
...lapses of faith, confidence and good sense. He skips from the accident back to his comfortable Catholic boyhood in Sydney, Australia (his father was a successful lawyer) and a frighteningly rigorous education at nearby St. Ignatius' College, a Jesuit boarding school right out of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. A dilatory student at Sydney University, he drew cartoons for an off-campus magazine and drank with the Sydney Push, a group of young swells that included future writers Germaine Greer and Clive James. "I would sport a black beret," he recounts, "and wear...
...artifice in the interest of capturing what [Lockhart] experienced.” This posed reality becomes much more evident in the photographs on the walls surrounding the screening rooms. Two years after she began filming in Pine Flat, Lockhart set up a studio where the children could have their portrait taken. As posing is what many children do best, Lockhart aptly provided them with an open invitation to do so. All of the photographs have the same black background, gray concrete floor, and vertical dimensions. Some of the photographs—such as “Sierra?...