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Grand Prix (second place): Un prophéte, France, directed by Jacques Audiard...
...runner-up Grand Jury Prize went to Un prophéte (A Prophet), a complex, absorbing, fairly conventional prison drama directed by Jacques Audiard. In the manner of last year's Palme d'Or winner The Class, set in a Paris junior high school, this is a documentary-style study of French minorities in an enclosed environment that sets its own rules. The main tension - and there's plenty in the schemings of rival ethnic gangs - comes from the relationship of a young Arab (Tahar Rahim) and his aged Corsican mentor (Niels Arestrup). When asked at the post-show press...
...like a fairy tale," Marilyn explains their collaboration. "We never have to work to sing together. We just learn our parts and come together, and it's been there all along." Her next new role will be as Fidès in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, which she will sing this summer both in Turin and London. "Fidès is Norma for contraltos," she explains. "I'm looking forward to it." Meanwhile Rudolf Bing, the Met and its followers can look forward to 18 more performances of Norma before the season closes...
Fashionable Cheese. His new devotion to Raphael, Dali believes, is just as fashionable as his handsome hotel suite in midtown Manhattan (which he once described as "an immense Gothic Roquefort cheese"). In fact, he says, "eet ees prophétique. Le people are tired of l'ugliness. Eet ees not possible to continue the destructive themes of Picasso. Mon revolution," he adds gravely, "ees very close to Catholicism...
...nearly a century after Merlin's smashing entrance, the sport remained a parlor trick. In 1849 grand opera really put it on its wheels. For an ice-skating scene in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, the ballet wore rollers. Rehearsals were bruising-one ballet skater landed in the bass drum-but in London and Paris the scene was a hit. Skating became an international rage...