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Article: Wild things: "The Constant Gardener" & "Grizzly Man".(Screen)(Movie Review)
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- Commonweal
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- October 7, 2005
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Based on the novel by John le Carre, Fernando Meirelles's film The Constant Gardener takes us to an Africa over-whelmed by poverty, disease, and crime--a place so desperate, the dead are buried in concrete graves to keep thieves from stealing their wedding rings. The gardener of the title is a British High Commission officer named Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a man who has reached midlife with no ambition beyond tending his flower garden, and little use of his intellect beyond fashioning sophistical diplomatic arguments for inaction in the face of injustice. Then he meets Tessa (Rachel Weisz), a brash law student who interrupts a tedious London lecture on diplomacy ...
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