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...challenge Spain's grand bullfighting traditions, he seems to immerse himself in them. Savalli was 7 years old and "afraid of even cows then," as he admits, when he met his destiny, attending an encierro (running of the bulls). "I fell in love immediately," says Savalli. "I can't explain it. I didn't love school, I didn't love work, but I loved bulls." His parents were less enamored when, two years later, their son insisted on taking classes at the local Bullfighting School of Arles. "They still don't like it," he confesses. Some 20 aspiring matadors enter...
...politicians who favor abortion rights ... you have to ask yourself how this person squares this with his personal faith. Catholic politicians need to take this seriously. Maybe they need to say I'm not able to practice my faith and be a public representative. As doctrinal chief, can you explain the recent instruction on whether a gay man can become a priest? The document is very clear. It says a person with deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not suited for the priesthood. Somebody who comes to the seminary from a gay lifestyle cannot be a priest...
Duck Season” would look like a filmed Samuel Beckett play. Indeed, in his auspicious feature-length debut, Mexican writer-director Fernardo Eimbcke wraps existential pretensions in the simple staples of adolescent existence, posing many questions along the way: Can videogames settle monetary disputes? Can pornography explain adolescent romance? Can pot brownies reveal the mysteries of growing up? Eimbcke deigns to answer these questions. He is interested in the little tics and iniquities that live underneath the perfectly filled coke glasses and the uneaten crusts of delivery pizza that populate this coming-of-age story. On this ostensibly ordinary...
...knows that the concept is tough to grapple with and before he can pontificate—which he rarely does here—he must first explain and explore...
Even though I did not necessarily recognize much of the Upper Peninsula in Bissell’s appearance, I could sense, without being able to explain, its affect on many of the characters in the collection of short stories...