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For all the characters in the movie, Life and Nothing But (La Vie et rien d’autre), the baggage of war is carried years after. Life and Nothing But is the story of a French Major assigned the happy task of retrieving and identifying the dead in a tunnel that had been mined by the retreating “Huns.” They blew it up as a train had been passing through.

Fairly straightforward plot lines. Major Dellaplane not only has to deal with the bodies, but with the military bureaucracy above him. He is competent in his work of matching names to corpses. The brass wants him to find one that can be the French “Unknown Soldier” to fulfill a patriotic ritual.

A Farewell to Arms could be a metaphor for its times. A story of World War I, the hero Lieutenant Frederic Henry, has to come to terms with the war he blithely entered. The country whose armed forces he is part of, Italy, was also blithe about going to war. Both pay for it in different ways.

It’s amazing that Emmanuel Jal can empathize with the youth growing up in inner-city Washington, D.C. These kids lead harsh lives, facing drugs, violence, poverty and bigotry on a daily basis. It’s amazing that Jal can empathize with them because to many, it would seem that his childhood was much, much worse.

Capturing the power of love is surely one of film’s most simple and yet most difficult callings. Even after years of attempts, many romances fall short of reaching any real truth and instead aren’t much more than a cinematic pillow for tired minds. Roberto Benigni’s The Tiger and The Snow strives to be more. The [...]