It is perhaps the movie squabble/scandal most divisive of audiences in my lifetime. Bucharest-born writer-director Radu Mihaileanu sent Roberto Benigni his script, hoping that the inordinately popular Italian comic would star in what turned out to be Train de vie, a comic fable set amidst the Holocaust. Benigni turned down the part and in record […]
Daily Archives: August 21, 2009
Twelve-year-old Shaun is picked on at school in his seaside town. He is fiercely protective of the memory of his father, who was recently killed in the Iron Lady’s Falklands War, a cynical, calculating attempt to revive Britain’s self-adulation predicated on the idea of empire. A gang of other, older working-class kids takes Shaun in, […]
Dennis Grunes 