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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Borat:
Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Directed by Larry Charles. Written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham,
Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer. Cinematography, Luke Geissbuhler and Anthony
Hardwick. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian and Pamela Anderson.
Twentieth Century Fox, 2006. R. 84 minutes. On the surface of things — where, like pond scum, popular media vegetate — it's easy to see why Borat has created such a cultural stir. The character of Borat, who first appeared on Da Ali G Show as a naïve, porn-obsessed Kazakhstani TV reporter, carries gypsy tears to ward off AIDS. Ignorant, sexist and homophobic, Borat is an equal-opportunity offender. It's often difficult to tell just whom he's offending most
Babel
Directed
by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Written by Guillermo
Arriaga, based on an idea by González Iñárritu and Arriaga.
Cinematography, Rodrigo Prieto. Music, Gustavo Santaolalla. Starring
Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Gael García Bernal, Adriana Barraza,
Rinko Kikuchi, Kôji Yakusho, Boubker Ait El Caid, Said Tarchani
and others. Paramount Vantage, 2006. R. 142 minutes. Best Director award,
Festival de Cannes 2006. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is probably most known, after three feature films, for the twisting, intricately linked narratives that run through his work. From Amores Perros (2000) through 21 Grams (2003) and now the sprawling, affecting Babel, the director ties people together by often tragic threads, linking, in Amores Perros, a famous model to a misguided young man making money off illegal dogfights. In Babel, the connections are stretched across the globe. A nanny takes her Californian charges across the border to Mexico; a deaf-mute Japanese girl, grieving over her mother's death, tries to connect with every man she meets; two families in Morocco, one native, one tourist, suffer after one tragic event. Read more...
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