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Though it takes on the dimensions of a 19th-century adventure and a love story, the French film "Le hussard sur le toit (The horseman on the roof)" ultimately doesn't succeed as either. Attempting to put new a "psychological" spin on old themes, yet still clinging to elements of an oddly oldfashioned romanticism, it may leave you wondering what you're supposed to feel. As a result, it left this viewer feeling very little...
...They are so busy that unless someonecomplains, they just put it on a list and get toit when they can," the student said...
Andrew Silverman, staff counsel at the StatePublic Defenders' Office, also has reservationsabout using gene typing methods. While he admitsthat DNA typing has proved to be useful in court,he expresses concerns about the reliability of theevidence and the often enormous weight attached toit...
...talking bureaucracy here. We are talking about a strangely imperturbable menace. Searching for his son, Ngubene is also arrested; father and boy are tortured and then murdered in prison. And because Du Toit continues to seek justice on their behalf, he is himself victimized by state terror that is the more frightening because of the bland face with which it covers its institutionalized psychopathy. Du Toit is subjected to steadily escalating harassment. Eventually he loses his job and his wife (Janet Suzman in a good, dour performance), and he must deal with the fact that his daughter is willing...
...that the best thing about A Dry White Season is that it does not practice unconscious apartheid. Our attention may be focused on the political education of Ben du Toit, but the Ngubene family is well particularized and their torments set forth unblinkingly, not to say horrifically. And Ben is provided with a guide to the realities of life on the other side of the color line: the tough, suspicious, ultimately compassionate taxi driver named Stanley (Zakes Mokae). He is a man who turns up in surprising places in unpredictable moods. He provides the bestartlements that shake Du Toit...