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...right to the point, naked old people making love - but nothing explicit, danke. Inge (Ursula Werner), a plain hefty woman in her early 60s, is more or less happily married to 70-something Werner (Horst Rehberg), whose idea of excitement is to listen to recordings of model-train sound effects. No wonder she goes for the slightly sprightlier Karl (Horst Westphal), who's 76 but young at heart, or at least early middle-aged. They have a quick tryst in his apartment, which begins a love affair that lets them both act like teenagers. The movie moves at Werner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Critical Snapshot in 10 Reviews or Less | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

...Griffith), whose father walked out when the child was born. One day Christine returns home to find Walter missing. As the days and months drag on, his disappearance becomes big news, and when word comes that the boy has been located, the press is there en masse at the train station. Instantly she sees that this "Walter" (Devon Conti) is not her son; but the police insist that he's Walter - case closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clint and Angelina Bring a Changeling Child to Cannes | 5/20/2008 | See Source »

Walking along Rue de Cornavin, near Geneva's main train station, Nesim, a 34-year-old immigrant from Turkey, stops to look at a poster plastered to a wall. It shows five dark-colored hands grabbing a stack of Swiss passports above the phrase STOP MASS NATURALIZATIONS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Decides Who Is Swiss? | 5/20/2008 | See Source »

...That train has left the station. The speed and ease with which Nasrallah's fighters took over Beirut--and the military's reluctance to stop them--suggest that Hizballah has free rein of the country. Unlike Hamas, which is confined to poverty-stricken Gaza, Hizballah has at its disposal an entire country, complete with a sophisticated banking system, an international airport and a friendly neighbor in Syria. Never has a terrorist organization had that kind of infrastructure. Saab notes that Hizballah's leaders can now have their cake and eat it too: "They're in control in Lebanon without having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to Hizballahstan | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...where military intervention in demonstrations against Beijing's rule resulted in bloodshed in March, sparking global protests that sullied China's image ahead of the Olympic Games. Others point to a string of recent calamities--a destructive snowstorm, an outbreak of disease that killed dozens of children, a fatal train accident--as evidence of some kind of heavenly displeasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: After the Killer Quake | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

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