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...nominated for seven Oscars, winning one. Its magic, says Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says, "but Shekhar brought this East-West sensibility to it. The dancing. The way he moved from point to point in the plot, with no logic. His willingness to make big, sudden changes. He was completely and utterly unusual, and deeply unafraid." Critics wondered at the ahistorical sumptuousness of the movie and whether the director had gotten a little carried away with his new studio money. Janet Maslin of the New York Times...
...director famed for opulent spectacle into a low-bud-get crusader for the oppressed. But as he tours the movie's setting in Dharavi, he revels in the prospect of making a film that combines Indian melodrama with economics. "It's 20 years from now," says Kapur, explaining the plot. "There's an upper city like Vegas and a lower city like this. And all the water is sucked up by the upper city." He points at a group of skinny girls slapping foamy saris in a puddle. "Those are my 'water rats,' my heroes. They live in dry pipes...
...during the gacaca court's discovery phase, which stretched over the last two years, Mukamusoni decided to meet him face to face. "He told me, 'Look, we did this because we had bad leaders who told us to kill,'" she says. "And he asked for forgiveness." Mukamusoni cultivates a plot of land near Ntirushwamaboko's house so the two often see each other. Mukamusoni lost her parents, two brothers and four nephews and nieces in the genocide. "It's almost everyone," she says. Her husband, a Hutu, survived but is currently in jail, accused of participating in the killings...
...delay funerals for weeks. "All three municipal cemeteries are clogged up," says Athens' Deputy Mayor Katerina Katrivanou. According to a private study, 80% of the greater Athens region's 29 cemeteries cannot take any more burials. The problem is partly a result of a macabre Greek tradition. Burial plots are rented for three years, after which the grave is dug up to check that the body has fully decomposed. If it has, the plot can be released for a fresh burial; if not, the lease is extended for another year. After that, the remains are reinterred in shallower or mass...
...suddenly, the elaborate plot of the bullshitter has been foiled. What? You mean using words like “juxtaposition” and “dichotomy” doesn’t automatically make my answer correct...