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...intensity, and slowly dawning certainty instead of fervent resolution. Bernal isn't the hunky, smoldering Che; he's the thoughtful, awkward Ernesto - and he's splendid, though he doesn't radiate a potent sensuality the way he did as a scheming transvestite in Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education. Instead, his Guevara is all goofy charm and dissolving innocence (more like his character in 2001's Y Tu Mamá También, but without the sex). His weapon is his wide, crooked smile. It's disarming and endearing, and as Guevara's carefree escapade turns into something...
...Having done away with formal balletic movements, she helped pioneer "dance-theater," a genre which fuses dance with bits of dialogue and song. Like real people, Bausch's dancers flirt, eat, drink, burp and fall over. Her devotees range from actress Cate Blanchett to movie director Pedro Almodóvar, who paid homage to the choreographer by opening and closing his Oscar-winning film Talk to Her with two Bausch performances. The Istanbul show is the latest in a series of pieces inspired by geographic locations that has seen Bausch and her colorful dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal visit Hong Kong...
...French. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 became the first documentary to win the best-in-show Palme d'Or since Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World 48 years ago. Two of the best films couldn't win an award, since they were shown out of competition: Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education and Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers. Almodóvar, after the consecutive masterpieces All About My Mother and Talk to Her, plunges into film noir territory with a melodrama about a Madrid schoolboy molested by a priest in the '60s. The theme of child abuse...
...mayors plant quick-growing pines so they can point to the new forest before their terms run out," Thinon says. "Then we get more fires." France passed a law in 1995 demanding that local authorities take strict fire-prevention measures, but in the hardest-hit Var region not a single such program is yet in place. Mayors say they don't have the money to clear the underbrush that accelerates the fires, nor do they widely enforce provisions aimed at preventing developers from cashing in on fire-cleared parcels. Once the fire has done its work, the development gallops...
...three players are familiar with leadership positions. Smith captained the U.S. National Team Developmental Program Under-17 team in 1998-1999, and did the same the next year with the Under-18s. Fried and Kolarik, meanwhile, co-captained the Deerfield Academy var...