This year, Susanne Bier won the best foreign-language film Oscar for the most powerful and moving film to win the prize since Federico Fellini’s La strada fifty-five years earlier. Bier, a Jewish Dane, won her Oscar (and Golden Globe) for Hævnen, a marvelous exploration of what parents and children do not know about each other, […]

What is a provincial boy to do when his sweetheart, to alleviate family poverty, has become the urban property of a Chinese pimp? Why, relocate to Manila and search her out! In the meantime, to survive, he takes a construction job, gets a bad case of heat stroke, learns about unfair labor practices, loses his […]