The Child, a Belgian drama about a petty thief who sells his baby son, won the Cannes film festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or on Saturday at a red-carpet ceremony. The movie, by director brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, triumphed over a field of 20 other pictures by a veteran pack of filmmakers.
When it comes to movies at the Cannes film festival, away from the worthy official screenings things are horrifying. Quite literally. This year has seen a surge in titles promising brain-eating, blood-splattering and nightmare-inducing action in that section of the market where hundreds of movies are on sale.
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/ 29 October 2004
Frail Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was admitted on Friday to a French military hospital near Paris for urgent treatment for what is said to be a potentially fatal blood disorder. It is the first time in three years that Arafat, symbol of the Palestinian struggle for statehood, has left his West Bank base, a sign of the gravity of his condition.
Freak storms packing howling winds and heavy rain that lashed Britain and France this week were set to continue on Wednesday, after already causing significant destruction and the deaths of at least four people. Rescuers in France resumed searches for at least five swimmers caught by surprise by the sudden change in the weather.
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/ 27 February 2004
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide must quickly resign and hand over the reins to a power-sharing government if he is to stop his country’s rapid slide towards ”uncontrolled” bloodshed, France told a delegation of senior Haitian officials in Paris on Friday.
Looting, killing in Haitian capital
The real-time media coverage of the unfolding war on Iraq is both a showcase for modern news-gathering technology and a boon to US commanders adapting their plans to the changing situation on the battlefield.