Month: November 2014

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Agent Provocateur: Edward Snowden Explains the Digital World as Citizenfour

Edward Snowden (left) explains Glenn Greenwald (right) how it's done.
Edward Snowden (left) explains Glenn Greenwald (right) how it’s done.

Who is Edward Snowden? Why even bother posing the question, you may ask, as the answer seems to be blatantly obvious: a world-famous whistleblower. The person who first appeared under the alias of Citizenfour to reveal the truth about the NSA, PRISM, and TEMPORA in 2013. We all know his name and face now, but we don’t really know the man and his motivations at all, at least not from a firsthand account. Is he a hero, as part of the internet community portrays him to be, or a villain, as most of the Western (and particularly) American officials paint him?

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The Musical Box: Marion Cotillard Plays Wicked Games in Love Me If You Dare

Julien (Guillaume Canet, left) and Sophie (Marion Cotillard, right) can't stay away from playing their dares game.
Julien (Guillaume Canet, left) and Sophie (Marion Cotillard, right) can’t stay away from playing their dares game.

Jeux d’enfants by French director Yann Samuell begins as a rather sad version of Amélie but develops a dynamic of its own which leads to catastrophe. The young Julien Janvier (Guillaume Canet), whose mother is on the brink of dying from cancer, meets Sophie Kowalsky (Marion Cotillard), a Polish classmate who is bullied. They become friends und develop a dares game which has only one rule: Whoever gets the musical box must do whatever he is asked.

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