Συμμετοχή στην κοπή πίτας του Ομιλου Υπεραποστάσεων Κρήτης στη Κριτσά Λασιθίου, την Κυριακή 24 Φεβρουαρίου 2013 με παράλληλη διοργάνωση αγώνων τρεξίματος 7 χλμ., Ποδηλασίας κατηγορίας Mountain Bike και Πεζοπορίας . .
Η Κριτσά είναι χωριό που βρίσκεται στο νομό Λασιθίου
και είναι κτισμένη αμφιθεατρικά στους πρόποδες του βουνού Κάστελλος σε
υψόμετρο περίπου 365 μέτρων. Στο χωριό κατοικούν περίπου 2200
απογεγραμμένοι κάτοικοι.
Είναι ένα από τα αρχαιότερα χωριά της Κρήτης
και διατηρεί σε σημαντικό βαθμό ακόμη αναλλοίωτη την παλιά αρχιτεκτονική φυσιογνωμία της. Οι κάτοικοι της είναι απόγονοι της Λατούς Ετέρας, της οποίας τα ερείπια βρίσκονται 3 χλμ.
βοριοανατολικά του χωριού. Από τις λίγες ανασκαφές που έχουν γίνει ως
τώρα στην Κριτσά, ήρθαν στο φως ο χώρος της αγοράς με το Πρυτανείο, την
εξέδρα και το Ιερό της Πόλης.
Αδιάκοπη είναι η παρουσία ανθρώπων στο
χώρο της Κριτσάς τουλάχιστον από τα υστερομινωικά χρόνια και μετά.
Θεωρείται βέβαιη η ακμή της στα Βυζαντινά χρόνια. Αν και ερημώθηκε από
τους Άραβες (823), κατοικήθηκε ξανά το 961 και γνώρισε νέα άνθηση στα χρόνια της Φραγκοκρατίας (13ος και 14ος αιώνας). Ήταν το μεγαλύτερο χωριό της Κρήτης καθ' όλο το Μεσαίωνα. Το 1867
έγινε έδρα Δήμου που συμπεριλάμβανε τον Κρούστα, την Πρίνα, το Καλό
Χωριό, το Μαρδάτι, τον Άγιο Νικόλαο, τα Μέσα Λακώνια και τις Τάπες.
Blame it on Fidel (French: La Faute à Fidel) is a 2006 French drama film directed by Julie Gavras.
Plot summary
A 9-year-old girl, Anna de la Mesa (played by Nina Kervel), weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris. Her Spanish-born lawyer father Fernando (played by Stefano Accorsi) is inspired by his sister's opposition to Franco and by Salvador Allende's victory in Chile; he quits his job and becomes a liaison for Chilean activists in France. Her mother (played by Julie Depardieu) a Marie Claire journalist-turned-writer documenting the stories of women's abortion
ordeals, supports her husband and climbs aboard the ideological
bandwagon. As a result, Anna's French bourgeois life is over. She must
adjust to refugee nannies, international cuisine and a cramped apartment
full of noisy revolutionaries.
The film covers an array of philosophy and ideology - everything from Communism to Catholicism to Greek and Asian mythology
- which Anna must reconstruct from confusion into her own set of
beliefs. As she negotiates her way through this ideological maze and
ultimately internalises her parents' objectives, she must deal with
stereotyping, misinformation, the potential hypocrisy of ideology and the potentially false hope of idealism.
Awards
Blame it on Fidel won the MPA's Michel D'Ornano Prize for a promising first French film.
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''. . . Ο Ερωτας είναι μια ομίχλη που εξατμίζεται με το πρώτο φως της πραγματικότητας'' Charles Bukowski
Ένας κριτικός λογοτεχνίας χωρίζει από τη γυναίκα του και,
πεπεισμένος πως ο έρωτας δεν κρατάει πάνω από τρία χρόνια, αρχίζει να
γράφει ένα βιβλίο με ανάλογο θέμα που γίνεται μπεστ σέλερ. Η καινούρια
σχέση του με την Αλίς, με την οποία είναι τρελά ερωτευμένος, του αλλάζει
ιδέες, αλλά η τελευταία αρνείται να τον εμπιστευτεί.
Résumé
Marc Marronnier et Anne s'aiment, se marient, mais trois ans plus
tard, après l'ennui et la jalousie, Anne demande le divorce. Marc est
anéanti et s'enfonce dans les facilités offertes par son travail,
critique littéraire le jour et chroniqueur mondain la nuit, avec son ami
Jean-Georges, homme à femmes du milieu de la nuit, et Pierre et Kathy,
ses amis libertins. Au réveil d'une tentative de suicide par pendaison
après une prise d'alcool et de médicaments, Marc commence l'écriture de
son roman autobiographique, L'amour dure trois ans, où il exprime toute sa rancœur envers ce grand sentiment, l'Amour.
Cependant, son point de vue est ébranlé après sa rencontre avec
Alice, la femme de son cousin Antoine. Marc et Alice se croisent lors de
l'enterrement de la grand-mère de Marc et Antoine, et aussitôt, ils
tombent sous le charme l'un de l'autre. Avec le temps et les
rendez-vous, Marc et Alice finissent par devenir amants, puis Alice
quitte son mari. C'est à ce moment que le roman de Marc finit par être
publié par Francesca Vernesi, des éditions Grasset. Marc insiste
toutefois pour que l'ouvrage soit publié sous un pseudonyme, Féodor
Belvédère, autant pour éviter le jugement de ses confrères critiques et
de révéler la vérité à Alice. Le livre est un succès bien qu'il divise
la critique et les lecteurs, comme Alice qui n'a pas aimé, trouvant le
propos misogyne. Marc parvient à garder le secret sur le livre jusqu'au
jour où le livre reçoit le prix de Flore
et où Francesca profite de la cérémonie pour révéler l'identité de
Féodor Belvédère. Alice rompt aussitôt, se sentant trahie, et retourne
auprès de son mari.
Marc, à nouveau célibataire, va chercher le soutien de Pierre, qui va
se marier, et Jean-Georges, sans pour autant parvenir à oublier Alice.
Le père de Marc lui conseille de tourner la page et de profiter de la
vie comme il le fait depuis son divorce, tandis que sa mère, auteur
féministe, l'incite à la reconquérir. Marc commence donc à écrire des
lettres passionnées à Alice, avant de faire une déclaration passionnée à
la télévision sur le plateau du Grand Journal,
mais sans résultat. Marc s'enfonce alors dans l'alcool, et règle ses
comptes la nuit du mariage de Pierre et Kathy en faisant un discours
insultant sur les mariés et les invités avant de partir chez son cousin
pour les insulter à leur tour.
Pour tourner la page, Marc se lance donc dans un nouveau projet, un
documentaire sur l'amour. Son éditrice accepte de lui financer un séjour
de deux ans pour l'Australie afin qu'il réalise son documentaire et
qu'il écrive un deuxième roman. Jean-Georges organise alors une dernière
rencontre, lors de son mariage avec son professeur de surf, en invitant
Alice et lui expliquant la situation. Alice hésite mais part, quittant à
nouveau Antoine pour rejoindre Marc.
Taciturn, partially deaf Hanna (Polley) is a Yugoslavian native working in a factory in Northern Ireland.
She is forced to take a vacation by her boss, who tells her that her
co-workers have been offended by her lack of socializing. After
overhearing a conversation about a need for a nurse, she takes on a job
as private nurse for burn victim Josef (Robbins). He is bedridden on an
offshore oil rig after a fire on the rig, and has severe burns and is temporarily blinded. The rig is not operational awaiting an investigation, and few people remain on board.
Hanna talks very little, and especially does not want to talk about
herself. Despite his pain, Josef is constantly making jokes, some of
them humorous sexual advances. Hanna's care for him includes holding the
urinal and washing his entire body. As they get closer, they start
sharing their experiences. Unbeknownst to him, she listens over and over
again to a message on his cell phone from a mysterious woman who was in
love with him.
Hanna learns from a colleague that Josef was injured while trying to save a man who committed suicide
by intentionally throwing himself into the oil-rig fire. Some other
tragic connection between the two men is implied. He tells about a
near-drowning experience because he cannot swim. Eventually Josef
confides to Hanna his greatest secret guilt, and she tells him about her
previous life in the former Yugoslavia. She describes in detail the horrors she endured during the Balkan Wars (Yugoslav Wars), including being kidnapped and repeatedly raped. She tells of her own repeated torture and lets him feel the scars on her body from the wounds inflicted on her.
Josef is not getting better, and at Hanna's initiative he is
air-lifted off the oil rig to be taken to a hospital. When the
helicopter lands, Josef wants Hanna to accompany him, but she walks away
without a word. However, she leaves behind a backpack (apparently
intentionally), and it contains enough information to give Josef a
chance to find her. After he recovers, Josef travels to Denmark
to visit a counselor that Hanna had seen after fleeing the war, seeking
to learn more about her. He then tracks her down at the factory in
Northern Ireland where she works. They talk, and at first she keeps her
distance, saying she couldn't be with him because she thinks one day she
could drown them both in her sorrow. When he tells her that he will
"learn to swim," she reciprocates the love.
The title of the film is about how words can transmit much more than
they say. The secret world of each character is hidden but carried to
each other by words.
Awards and nominations
The film was nominated for five Goya Awards and won four of them, including best film of the year:
Syracuse (Colin Farrell),
called "Circus", is an Irish fisherman and former drunk, with a
daughter named Annie, who is suffering kidney failure and uses a
motorised wheelchair, and an ex-wife named Maura. One day, he finds a
young woman (Alicja Bachleda-Curus)
called Ondine in his net, whom he resuscitates. The woman is
disoriented, but refuses hospitalisation and doesn't want to be seen by
people, so Syracuse takes her to his deceased mother’s house. Later, at
dialysis, he tells Annie a story about a fisherman who pulled in his
nets and discovered a woman. Annie believes the woman in the net is a selkie.
A man is seen lurking around the docks seemingly looking for someone or
something. It is later revealed that Ondine is actually a Romanian drug
mule and the man lurking around the docks is the man Ondine works for
(her "pește").
The man finds Ondine and wants the backpack (full of drugs) she lost at
sea while trying to evade the Coast Guard (which is why Syracuse found
Ondine in the sea) The backpack is in the ocean inside a lobster trap;
as the Romanians are trying to get the trap, Ondine makes the Peste fall
overboard by pulling on the rope he is standing on. Syracuse grabs the
other one and dives into the water. The Peste drowns while trying to
open the lobster trap, while the other one is brought back to the boat
by Syracuse and is arrested ashore. In the end Syracuse marries Ondine
so she can stay in Ireland, but mostly because he and Annie love her.
Filming began on July 18, 2008 on location in Castletownbere in Ireland, and was scheduled to finish on August 6, 2008. Ondine had its European premiere as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival on February 18, 2010 in Dublin, Ireland. The film was released in the United States on June 4, 2010 by Magnolia Pictures with a MPAA Rating of PG-13 for some violence, sensuality and brief strong language.
Reception
The film currently holds a 70% Fresh rating on Review Aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes based on 94 reviews. Critics have praised the film for its atmospheric almost dreamlike quality while some have criticized the ending.
Critics have also praised the performances of Colin Farrell and Alison
Barry as Annie, with Mary Pols stating: "Barry is such a relaxed and
strong performer that she manages to shrug off the burden of Annie's
precociousness."
