Franco-Swiss documentary judges the crisis in the US by Magdalena Rosova

Swiss director Jean-Stéphane Bron decided to examine the US subprime and housing crises in his latest film “Cleveland Versus Wall Street.” He used quite interesting and unusual lens – in the movie he depicts a trial that pits struggling Midwesterners against Wall Street bankers. Among other movies dealing with the topic of the crisis such as Michael Moore's movie “Capitalism: A Love Story” or Charles Ferguson's movie “Inside Job,” Jean-Stéphane Bron drove attention with a surprising approach. Bron shows trial that has never taken place and uses real citizens, lawyers and a judge. The people in the film come from Cleveland! and Ohio, regions most hit by the economic crisis. The citizens face off against Wall Street bankers that issued subprime loans. The citizens blame the loans for costing them their homes. French Bron claimed to know nothing about finance or the economy. How is possible then shoot such a mock court case criticizing an economic ethics? Bron said he wanted to film :capitalism in action.” In an interview he explained his thought that economic forces had taken over all other forces – political or ideological. When he read in the newspapers that people from Cleveland failed to bring businesspeople from Wall Street to court, he decided to give those people a chance to get the justice. In the movie you will see witnesses on both sides of the conflict – people forced to leave their homes and bankers explaining their lending practices. The movie was first screened at Cannes last May and it has premiere in French cinemas on Wednesday.

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Why always so optimistic? by Barbora Misakova

Cancer is probably the worst disease in the world as it affects people at all ages. Every year there are millions of people suffering from cancer and many of them are dying of it. In 2007 cancer caused about 13 % of all human deaths what represented 7.6 million people! Cancers are caused by abnormalities in the genetic material of the transformed cells and even though there are whole medical teams trying to find medicine which would help us with this anti-cancer fight, their success is still questionable. That is why I don’t understand people with cancer, how they can be so optimistic. Michael Douglas is another Hollywood star suffering from this terrible disease, who! says: “I am very optimistic.” I am asking, how is that? I understand that optimistic point of view helps people to recover more and pessimistic attitude is on the other hand the worst thing a sick person can do. Anyway, where are these people taking this certainty from? Michael Douglas has been prescribed eight weeks of chemotherapy and radiation. According to Reuters, doctors expect Doulas to make a full recovery. As there is everyone so sure and optimistic, why a representative for Douglas declined comment on any further details? It is because they all are afraid. They are afraid that Douglas, in his age, won’t be able to handle chemotherapy. They are afraid these eight weeks could be his last. Last but not least they are scared of idea, that Hollywood could lose such an actor! And this is normal. But from my modest point of view, only smile and performed optimism is not enough. We should be allowed to talk also about our concerns and worries, about our! demons. As they are those we are suffering from the most.
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America's got a new talent in Jackie Evancho by Zivka Deleva

Paul Potts, Susan Boyle and lot more so called hidden talents are everywhere on earth. First you think that you are dealing with some lonely people that work in a mobile phone shop and have nothing to do in life so they try to make some career, but the best talents often show up that way. How many gifted children you have seen at the television shows, or life streaming clips on the internet, that impress millions of people worldwide. And normally, you can not expect that everybody will become a star. Such children were Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, but not every talented boy or a girl had the happy star to become famous like one. Not rarely, but ver! y often when such contests like Music Idol, American Talent and others are involved, there is big disappointment, because no matter how good you are, still one is a winner. So you have the case with 49-year old Scottish Boyle whose mental condition was so worrying that a day after the final of the TV show Britain's got a talent, she ended up in a private psychiatric clinic, after she ended up second best. OK, the lady now has a CD that is sold in the whole world, and realized that you don't have to be a winner to be a good one. Very often, winners don't have the shiny destiny, that is sort of an unwritten role.   These days, the name of Jackie Evancho, an American 10-year old girl that sang on NBC's America's Got Talent threw a shadow over all the talented girls. The Pennsylvania girl amazed millions of viewers and the judges as well with the performance of Giacomo Puccini's aria "O Mio Babbino Caro". If she wins, she'll get 1 million dollars and contract to perform in! Las Vegas. I mean, a 10-year old girl, don't you find it a li! ttle bit freaky?

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Inspector Maigret dies at the age of 80. by Milota Sidorova

Sometimes old stories appear in the shiny light. Sometimes even old stars have their old glimpse and cover our eyes with the silver dust. Sometimes the words that seemed to be fatal turn out to be fatal.I didn't know anything about Bruno Jean Marie Cremer, the persona that seemed to me more like French local acting star. Ok, there was something about his life role – pipe-smoking Inspector Jules Maigret. Sometimes these detective characters like Inspector Cluzo, Sherlock Holmes, Dempsey, Monk or just Policeman from St.Tropez turn out to be important part of common cinema, social and cultural heritage. For Jules Maigret it was his pipe and almost uninterested attitude f! or anybody around. With the same uninterested face and low voice he was able to track down criminals. Although the old series made quite a success, the modern one lacked good performing that was reduced on mere Cremer presence. But still, if we look behind Maigret, there will be some more interesting about Cremer himself. For instance his belief that he would be an actor. According his own words otherwise he would be lost, not knowing what to do in life. With this belief he was accepted to the Paris Conservatory. Among his best roles were considered theater pieces in Shakespeare's “Pericles”, Oscar Wilde's “An Ideal Husband” and Jean Anouilh's “Poor Bitos”and “Becket”. Later on he appeared in dozens of movies and fifty-four television movies as Commissaire Maigret. Maigret took him 14 years of his life, being produced by French TV from 1991 to 2005. Maigret was able to perform even in his 75 years. His real alter ego died on! Saturday in Paris hospital at the age of 80.

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