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...shores of Sir Bani Yas - a large island in the Persian Gulf, lying just 5 miles (8 km) off the coast of the emirate of Abu Dhabi. And in truth, there is a whiff of fantasy about this sand-colored, 64-room property, fringed by cobalt-blue sea on one side and, on the other, a saltwater lagoon fronting desert scrubland and a jumble of rocky central hills...
...widowed mother struggled to establish a rice plantation straddling the Gulf of Siam in southern Cambodia. Having failed to adequately grease the required palms in the land-registry office, the mother, brilliantly played by Isabelle Huppert, is assigned land that she later finds is prone to flooding from the sea. In her attempt to hold back the tide, Huppert rallies local villagers to build a barrier against the ocean. It's a Sisyphean task that sets her against colonial functionaries who have designs on her property, and a rapacious tycoon, Monsieur Jo (Randal Douc), a Parisian-educated Sino-Khmer, whose...
...Shot on location in the actual village inhabited by the Duras family, The Sea Wall tempers its denunciation of colonialism with personal melodrama and the disillusionment of a poor white colonist, who once believed in France's mission civilisatrice but has realized the harsh truth of empire-building. Its 115 minutes feel overlong at times, but given the fact that most moviegoers' impressions of this period and place were formed by the 1992 Academy Award - winning fantasy Indochine, the visceral reality check provided by The Sea Wall is novel - and welcome...
Bearing Up. Alaska became a state 50 years ago, which is good enough reason to take a sea kayak tour of the remote Aialik Bay, with Backcountry Safaris. You might spot humpback whales, porpoises, seals and sea otters. A seven-day trip costs $2,338, including dry-suit rental, kayaks and other gear, along with meals while camping. If you book...
...Prabhakaran's trusted lieutenants - intelligence head Pottu Amman and Sea Tiger leader Soosai - were also killed in the ambush. "LTTE terrorists made their final bid to evacuate its leaders early this morning as army élites pierced in to the last remaining LTTE foothold last night," the Defense Ministry said in a statement later in the day. "The terrorists managed to take hold of two vehicles and [are] believed to have put their senior leaders into those vehicles before they started moving northward." (See pictures of Sri Lanka's rebel-held territory...