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...Even from California, where he leads the United Lao Liberation Front (ULLF), Vang, 74, casts a long shadow over his people. Moua says he reports directly to Vang?a claim the Californian denies, though he does admit to providing occasional help. From his suburban American home, the exiled general demands democracy and a reinstatement of the monarchy in Laos. Moua and his militia are among the remnants of Hmong rebel groups fighting for that disappearing dream...
When he's shooting a film, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 62, doesn't listen to his actors, critics or the government, nor does he pander to his audience. He does, however, listen to the wind. While shooting his latest film, Shadow Kill, the story of an anguished hangman in 1940s India, Adoor was struck by the thumping sound of nighttime gusts playing on the leaves of a palmyra tree near his set in a rural Kerala village. "It sounded exactly like a heartbeat," he says. It was the rhythm he hadn't been aware he was seeking - a steady drumming...
...whose cinematic talents - and ego - are in inverse proportion to his low-key fame, Adoor's intense, demanding films have been worshiped by Indian and foreign critics and celebrated in self-consciously sophisticated Kerala, yet they've barely been released in much of India. But with the visually generous Shadow Kill, the man whom filmmaker Shyam Benegal calls "probably the best director in India today" aims to change the perception that he's a purveyor of small, art-house films. At least he thinks he does. "I want the audience to come and see my work," he says, black eyes...
...next day we screen his latest, Shadow Kill. The print has no English subtitles, but Adoor provides a running translation, whispering the laconic dialogue in my ear. "A film like Shadow Kill demands many viewings to be understood," he says. An antideath-penalty parable with the pacing of a Greek tragedy, Shadow Kill is also visually rich, steeped in the verdant colors of the postmonsoon tropics. A veteran village hangman, who lives on the fringes of society and is haunted by the memory of an innocent's execution, is called into duty one last time. He is a killer...
...also Adoor's most accessible work, but don't dare suggest that he's compromising to expand his audience. In fact, it's best not to offer any criticism at all, especially if it's about the wind. The auteur can be awfully sensitive about the wind. After finishing Shadow Kill, Adoor and I - along with his longtime colleague and friend P.K. Nair, former director of India's National Film Archive - adjourn to Adoor's house for lunch. Over dessert in the director's spacious office Nair gently points out that one of the core images in Shadow Kill - wind...