Released on: 1999
Rating: 5.10
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“The Imperialists Are Still Alive!” Director Zeina Durra And Star Elodie Bouchez
In the opening scene of Zeina Durra’s debut, The Imperialists Are Still Alive!, Asya, a young artist, poses naked for the camera. A hijab on her head, a machine gun in hand, she explains to an off-screen assistant her rationale for why the character she’s inhabiting — a religious freedom fighter — might have waxed her pubic hair It’s a scene that is as funny as it is politically loaded, much like the movie that follows.
Although its milieu — the young, privileged and the artistic — is the stuff coming-of-age movies are made of, The Imperialists Are Still Alive! is more than just another indie tale of an artist struggling to find her voice. Durra’s Asya already has a voice, thank you very much, and lucky for us, it’s a little angry, a little wry and a lot political. The Imperialists Are Still Alive is an unabashedly assured»
- Mary Anderson Casavant
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'Hop' on Top Despite Drop
Hop led another ho-hum weekend at the box office as the four new nationwide releases were modest at best. The animated Easter comedy pulled in an estimated $21.7 million, down 42 percent for a $68.2 million tally in ten days. It continued to track closely to Rango at the same point. That is to say, it's been solid but not exceptional. The Arthur remake opened in second with estimated $12.6 million, but the less-hyped Hanna and Soul Surfer were relatively more impressive with an estimated $12.3 million and $11.1 million, respectively. Your Highness was the biggest dud of the weekend with an estimated $9.5 million opening, which was less than half of flop Year One's start among comparable titles. Among holdovers, the highlight was Insidious, which not only bucked the typical second weekend slump of the horror genre, but delivered the smallest decline among nationwide releases. It eased 27 percent to an estimated $9.7 million for a $27.1 million sum in ten days.»
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