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...several remarkable things about this austere and masterly movie - which may remind cinephiles of the calm clarity and seeming simplicity of the French master, Robert Bresson - is that Bégaudeau is playing a version of himself, in a screenplay of his own devising that is in turn based on a novel that he also wrote. It is hard to think of another film more tightly autobiographical than this one. It's even harder to think of other films that build so gripping a narrative out of a string of comparatively minor and disparate incidents. For its first few minutes...
...days of loss and uncertainty, there is particular comfort in the once-a-year hymns, the green-bean recipe you don't really like but would still miss at Thanksgiving, the recurring commitments that remind us what's certain, what's fleeting. Timber and stone, flesh and blood may change--a grandfather dies, a house burns down--but the traditions survive; they are made of love and longing for what we value, and so we hold them close and take them wherever we go. They are wonderfully portable, as anyone who has ever improvised a Thanksgiving in someone else...
...Year: a regular Sunday-night Scrabble smackdown; a spring clothing drive; a rule that every time Mom or Dad swears, they put a dollar in the charity box that gets distributed on New Year's Eve. At their best, traditions make us better; at the very least, they remind us how far we've come and how lucky...
...Western media’s focus on piracy off the Somali coast in the last few months has been light in tone since piracy ceased to be a serious problem in the Atlantic centuries ago. In the popular imagination, “pirates” remind us of either illegal copies of movies made in some lost developing country or the extremely successful Disney franchise Pirates of the Caribbean. Some gravity, however, is called for: This year alone, pirates with land bases in Somalia have attacked over 100 ships off the coast of Africa. Most notably, they have held...
...Recent bellicose gestures by the Indian government and media remind me of the atmosphere after a 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. In the days following the attack, over 400,000 Indian and Pakistani troops were amassed on the volatile border . Level-headed diplomacy resulted in a de-escalation of this situation, and set the two countries on several years of peace talks. These negotiations have come a long way, to the extent where Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari recently told a conference in India that he foresaw a future where Indians and Pakistanis could cross...