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...secreto de sus ojos” (“The Secret in Their Eyes”) is meant to explore the nature of violence, to question the human passion for the destructive, to honor sacrifice in the name of friendship, and to consider the potential for a love that either cuts across socioeconomic class or “freezes in time.” The film does, in one way or another, include all of these motifs, but it presents them in a way that is so cliché and fragmented that their meaning, for the most part...
...Secret in Their Eyes,” is the fourth feature-length film by Argentinean director Juan José Campanella. Based on Eduardo Sacheri’s novel “La pregunta de sus ojos” (“The Question in Their Eyes”), the film flits back and forth between 1974 and the present day, as it tells the story of Argentinean formal federal justice agent, Benjamín Espósito (Ricardo Darín) who is haunted by a 25-year old unsolved crime, as well as the lost opportunities...
...There's a reason for the officers' light touch. For years, British policing has been restrained by the 1981 abolition of the "Sus Law" that had allowed police to stop and search citizens simply on suspicion of criminal intent. "Sus" sparked riots in several British cities, amid charges that it sanctioned racist harassment of young black men. But a surge of youth violence - violent offenses by perpetrators aged under 18 rose 37% in three years to 2006 - has prompted the government to once again beef up the discretionary powers of cops on the street. "Dispersal orders," for example, allow officers...
...ever did on SFU was to ask him to make it less conventional, and he could have used that kind of intervention this time. For a show about prejudice, True Blood is free with stereotypes: Sookie's sassy black friend, the flaming gay cook and sundry racist Juh-hee-sus-fearing rednecks. (When a boy sees Bill and tells his mother, "He's so white!" she answers, "No, darlin', we're white. He's dayd...
Through Wednesday, Nov. 2. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center. $8; students $6. Tickets available at Harvard Film Archive. The exceedingly unconventional French director Bruno Dumont made people notice him seven years ago with his film debut, “La Vie de Jèsus.” Set in the French countryside, the movie starred local non-professional actors Sébastien Bailleul, Samuel Boidin, and Geneviéve Cottreel, to achieve a natural and realistic portrayal of the area. Its depictions of sex, racism, violence, and jealousy won the movie critical acclaim. Soon after directing the intense, graphic...