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DIVINE INTERVENTION. Palestinian director-writer Elia Suleiman addresses the strife between his homeland and Israel in this deliberately composed, frequently absurd comedy. Suleiman also plays the film’s quiet protagonist, unimaginatively named E.S. This is not to say that Suleiman does not let his imagination run wild elsewhere in the work; one much-dicussed dream sequence depicts a woman who suddenly rebels against the soldiers using her for target practice, taking the offensive in a blaze of martial arts fury. The film won two awards at last year’s Cannes...
...voice of children who range from ages three to 17, and can easily adopt her characters’ personalities, no matter what their age. “It comes very naturally to me,” Lowry says, “When I start a book and create the protagonist and create the gender and the age, I instantly find myself inside the mind and perception of the protagonist and speaking in their voice. It’s kind of astounding even...
...women sometimes purposely select stories with female protagonists, books their boys might otherwise ignore. "As long as the story was good, it didn't matter who the protagonist was," says Lurene Thomas, mother of Henry, 11. "But he would never, never pick up a book with a girl on the cover to read." For his part, Henry says he didn't much care for Fever 1793. "It didn't matter that it had a female character," he says. "I just thought it was poorly written and not challenging at all." Still, the mothers say that part...
This is where women’s television network Lifetime leaves Murray—the real world protagonist of their made-for-tv movie “Homeless to Harvard,” released last week...
...gawking at the anarchists and punks; the district is more prosperous these days, because the Wall's fall put it in the center of Berlin. But Kreuzberg still retains its wild old flavor. The best way to get a feel for it is to do as Frank Lehmann, the protagonist of Sven Regener's 2001 cult novel Herr Lehmann...