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CNA
17 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- CNA
'Moo Deng' escapes from Thai zoo in animal safety drill
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The Guardian
18 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Toxic review – stylishly blank look at fashion's real victims
Lithuanian first-time director Saule Bliuvaite makes a real impression with this impressively acted and elegantly composed feature set in the tough suburbs of Kaunas where teen girls dream of escape through an international modelling career. Bliuvaite and her cinematographer Vytautas Katkus contrive striking tableaux and ambient setpieces, creating an emotional context for this drama: a world of alienation and desperate need, but also resilient humour. It's a disturbing essay in sexuality, poverty and sexual capital which reminded me a little of Ninja Thyberg's Pleasure and Isabella Eklöf's Holiday in its candid, affectless evocation of the young female body, and its vulnerability to weight-loss exploitation. Bliuvaite's style reminded me of the Austrians Ulrich Seidl and Jessica Hausner – the latter was incidentally president of the jury which gave this film top prize at last year's Locarno film festival. Newcomer Vesta Matulyte plays Marija, a shy girl who walks with a slight limp due to a disability; she has to live with her grandma while her mum fixes her relationship problems. After being bullied at her new school, she stands up to and finally befriends a girl who had tried to steal her jeans in the swimming pool changing room. This is Kristina (Ieva Rupeikaite), and together these two respond to an ad for a 'modelling school' audition which promises to send winning applicants on fashion trips to the far east and the US. However they must pay upfront for their photoshoots and other unspecified admin costs, and their parents must sign a contract permitting their daughters to work for nothing until the 'debt' is paid off. It is clearly abusive and exploitative on some level, with the penniless girls having to resort secretly to obvious measures to pay these initial fees; yet it may not be any more of a scam than the rest of the supposedly legitimate 'modelling recruitment' business. There are bleak, mordant touches in the reportage camerawork; we are often placed in longshot in relation to the action, or sometimes directly overhead, so that we can savour this blank context. Marija wears a Marilyn Manson T-shirt (the director leaves it up to us to ponder that celebrity's current associations) and Kristina's amiable dad Sarunas (Giedrius Savickas) – who is poignantly prepared to help his daughter get out of this gloomy place by any means necessary – wears a 'Queen Elizabeth II Rest In Peace' T-shirt: a very surreal touch. The truth is Marija and Kristina are hardly more than children, and to witness Kristina get a tongue piercing or swallow a tapeworm parasite for weight loss (cheaper than Ozempic) is to witness some terrible harm or self-harm. Periodically, Bliuvaite will show us the young women practising the catwalk slouch around the grim scrubland, sashaying 10 or 20 paces forward, halting with a hip-jut, swivelling and sashaying back – a stylised choreography of coercion and unhappiness. It's a very stylish piece of work. Toxic is on Mubi from 25 July.
CTV News
12 hours ago
- CTV News
RCMP searching for suspect who escaped police vehicle
Roberto Easter is pictured in this undated photo. (RCMP) The Manitoba RCMP is searching for a suspect who escaped from a police vehicle. The incident began around 3:30 p.m. on Monday when Mounties arrested Roberto Easter at a home on Airport Road in Chemawawin Cree Nation for breaching the conditions of a release order. Officers said they put him in handcuffs and placed him in the back of a police car. Police allege before they could bring him to the detachment, a 28-year-old woman approached the car and helped Easter to escape. Police note the woman and suspect are known to each other. Easter, 30, was last seen fleeing into a dense brush. RCMP is now searching for the escapee. The 28-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with escape lawful custody, resist/obstruct police officer and uttering threats. The charges against the woman and Easter have not been tested in court. Police said there is no threat to public safety. Anyone with information on Easter's location is asked to call police at 204-329-2004 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
CBC
13 hours ago
- CBC
RCMP search for man who escaped vehicle during arrest in Chemawawin Cree Nation
Mounties are on the hunt for a man who escaped a police vehicle during his arrest in northern Manitoba on Monday. RCMP say they arrested Roberto Easter, 30, for breaching conditions of a release order at an Airport Road home in Chemawawin Cree Nation around 3:30 p.m. local time Monday. He was put in handcuffs and placed in the back of a police vehicle, police said in a news release on Tuesday. Before Easter was taken to the RCMP detachment, a a 28-year-old woman who knows him went up to the police vehicle, helping him escape, police said. Easter, from Chemawawin, was last seen fleeing into nearby dense brush. A search for Easter is now underway, but police say there is no threat to public safety. Chemawawin Cree Nation is about 400 kilometres north of Winnipeg. The 28-year-old woman, who's also from Chemawawin, was arrested and charged with escaping lawful custody, resisting/obstructing police officers and uttering threats. online.
Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
27 inmates are still at large following an Israeli airstrike during the 12-day war, Iran says
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran said Tuesday 27 inmates were still at large after an Israeli airstrike last month targeted Evin prison in the north of the capital, Tehran, local media reported. The airstrikes were part of Israel's 12-day bombardment of the Islamic Republic that killed about 1,100 people. while 28 were left dead in Israel in Iranian retaliatory strikes. Judiciary's news website, Mizanonline, quoted spokesman Asghar Jahangir as saying 75 prisoners had escaped following the strike, of which 48 were either recaptured or voluntarily returned. He said authorities will detain the others if they don't hand themselves over. Jahangir said the escapees were prisoners doing time for minor offenses. Iranian officials said the Israeli strike killed 71 people, but local media reported earlier in July that 80 were left dead at the time, including prison staff, soldiers, inmates and visiting family members. Authorities also said five inmates died. It's unclear why Israel targeted the prison. The Israeli Defense Ministry had said that 50 aircraft dropped 100 munitions on military targets 'based on high-quality and accurate intelligence from the Intelligence Branch.' The New York-based Center for Human Rights had criticized Israel for striking the prison, seen as a symbol of repression of any opposition, saying it violated the principle of distinction between civilian and military targets.
