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...dying man not only coping with the passing of his faithful life companion, but also reflecting on the slow disintegration of the family structure. Sentiments aside, the direction of the movie, which is set in Germany and Japan, pays tribute to a cross-cultural exchange between East and West embodied in the interaction between Rudi and a teenaged Butoh dancer named Yu (Aya Irizuki). While Rudi travels to Japan as a way of making amends to his dead wife, it is not until he meets Yu that he learns about an aspect of his wife’s life that...
Maybe the Muslim world is, after all, a mystery to the West. Maybe the two cultures have simply diverged one step too far from each other—somehow neither can break the encryption just beneath the surface of the mutual chatter that seems to elicit so much wrath and illuminate as little common ground. Maybe the only hope that the people of the West can understand the subtlety and beauty of the Islamic culture comes in the form of a docu-drama made up to look like an historical epic—one whose patronizing tone is only outpaced...
...There’s no such thing as last minute training [in squash]. It just doesn’t work,” West said. “You only get one shot at each game, and you have to perform on the day. And Verdi is bar none the best at that...
...We’ve been focused on] playing the big points right,” West said. “We’ve had a lot of matches that have come down to the last point—the crisis point—and that’s what we’ve been working on, playing tough under those pressure situations...
...Peru appears to be the farthest that purloined Iraqi treasures have traveled. Most other recovered items have come from neighboring countries. More than 2,500 artifacts have returned to Iraq from Jordan, along with more than 760 from Syria. Many stolen items have made it to further west. Thirteen pieces were found in Italy; and at least another dozen have surfaced in the United States, including a large statue of a Sumerian king...