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...Israeli F-15s shot down two threatening Syrian MiG-23Ss over Syrian territory. In West Beirut, tanks and rockets were being used in the bitter fighting between the Druze militia of Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and its erstwhile ally, the Shi'ite Amal militia, headed by Nabih Berri. By Friday, police estimated that 44 people had been killed and 200 wounded...
...patchwork parliament. Its share of parliamentary seats may even grow if the Syrians depart, since Hizballah advocates have long believed the Syrians actually cheated Nasrallah's movement out of a few seats in order to bolster the parliamentary presence of its own Shiite favorite, the Amal movement of Nabi Berri, the speaker of parliament...
directed by Claude Berri...
...claustrophobic minutes, Berri locks viewers inside Zola's 19th century coal mines, where death by cave-in seems only slightly worse than the 12-hour-a-day life sentences that are the miners' jobs. Aboveground too, everything seems a dark metaphor for exploitation. Sex, marriage, even motherhood are tainted by capitalist precepts: a woman's basic job is to keep the workers sated and breed more of them...
Excepting a few scenes of adulterous frivol among the ruling class, the film is remarkably fair-minded in doling out bad hands to workers and bosses. But because the theme is that the Industrial Revolution ground human beings into human beasts, Berri can't explore the very individual perfidy that was at the heart of Jean de Florette. Germinal, with its climactic mine disaster and bitter lamentations, is finally buried in its fidelity to its source...