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...starkest element in this heartbreaking story about Iraqi girls being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery was the observation by a Western official in Baghdad who monitors the status of women in Iraq that sex trafficking was virtually nonexistent under Saddam. So was the violent persecution of Iraqi Christians, and so were terrorist attacks. Was regime change really necessary? Robert P. Waxman Cairo, New York...
...writing a provocative editorial about a government contract, his biggest concern is not his cause or his safety, but discovering that his cellmate was his new girlfriend's old flame. In A Refugee, a young woman moves from the countryside to the capital after Maoists murder her husband. That violent act underpins the story. "It was hard to believe that this country was becoming a place where people killed each other over differences in ideas about how to govern it," ponders Pitamber, a man who gives shelter to the widow. But her influence on Pitamber and his family, which almost...
...keeping from someone else. The plot, as it unfolds in a series of startling revelations, plows the dark past to exhume codes of predation and murderous reprisal that are repeated across three generations. Not to give too much away, I'll just say that victimization and a violent streak run in the family, most of it traceable to Irene's husband, who was "born to hurt the women who loved him." But this is an Almodóvar film, so with all this aberrant activity comes the need for understanding bizarre behavior. As Raimunda and Sole go back...
...relentless bloodshed has sparked a vociferous debate over what do about Brazil's violent criminals and its notoriously corrupt and overcrowded prison system. Hardliners are arguing for a crackdown, while liberals counter that nothing will change unless the government attacks the country's epic social and economic inequality. But the question is not just what to do but how. Roughly a third of all Brazil's prisoners are locked up in Sao Paulo state; between 800 and 1,000 more prisoners are jailed each month and the system is stretched to the breaking point. "We'd need to build...
...couple of jolting images: of Silas whacking a nun, and of the car crash that killed Sophie's parents and brother. He also manages an exemplarily creepy exchange between Tautou and Bettany, which for a moment raises the stakes to the level of personal affront. But these signs of violent life are rare. The flashbacks to the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages (shot in desaturated color) look both expensive and perfunctory - words that sum up the film...