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Monday, May 16, 2005
I smell Palme d'Or
Oh, those informed Europeans:
The dark underside of the United States has taken center stage in several films at Cannes this year, capped on Monday with a scathing attack of past and present racism in America by Danish director Lars von Trier.
"Manderlay," about a fictional Alabama plantation where people are living in 1933 as if slavery were never abolished, staggered festival-goers with a disturbing portrayal of America that fails, even today, to come to terms with its racist past.
And two paragraphs below:
Von Trier, whose fear of flying has prevented him from visiting the United States...
Meanwhile, back in reality, racism and anti- Semitism continue to be disturbingly pervasive among our enlightened European brethren. But for whatever reason, filmmakers remain uninspired on the subject.
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