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...surge of Mexican cinema; they usually cite the three amigos: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo Del Toro. Yet Reygadas, 36, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take on sex. With his competition film Stellet Licht (Silent Light), Reygadas shocks again: this drama of a Mennonite community in northern Mexico contains no explicit hanky-panky. In its way the film is true to the severe, austere code...
...movie has a formal rigor familiar to the more serious Cannes entries: virtually every scene, no matter how long, is shot without cutting. That can be an enervating strategy, but here it works marvelously, either forcing the characters together as reluctant conspirators or isolating each in his or her predicament. (There's a bustling scene, at the birthday party of Otilia's boyfriend's mother, that becomes a kind of tour de force, with the gaiety of the celebrants making the girl's misery all the more palpable.) It may be minimalism, but in the best sense: Mungiu has stripped...
...Interior Ministry rejects those numbers. "I doubt the scientific rigor of such an alarming rate," Fabricio Perez, general director for custody and rehabilitation at the ministry, told TIME. His colleague, deputy interior minister Ricardo Jimenez Dan, took aim at the director of the NGO, Humberto Prado, a former prison director under a previous government. "It would seem that the drama that our jails are living is the only way of life and sustenance that he has," the deputy minister said...
...thinking about theater as learning and discovery,” he says. “The process is more valuable than the end product.” Forbess, who plays the charged role of Martha, echoes Wilner’s appreciation of the play’s rigor. “This is by far the meatiest acting role I’ve ever had and probably ever will have,” she says. Because “Who’s Afraid?” has only four parts, each actor plays a vital role throughout the show...
...unfounded. The book is quite different from that famed multimedia presentation of Al Gore ’69, albeit far less authoritative. It features an excellent outline of myriad environmental challenges while making a scatter-shot attempt at solutions that relies more on isolated case examples than rigorous policy proposals.While Gore’s eco-wonkishness has been well-known for decades—former President George H. W. Bush derisively called him “Ozone Man” during the 1992 presidential campaign—Kerry has never been far behind. In fact, the two Kerrys met when...