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Article: War's odd bedfellows.(C)(Metropolitan)(Life)(Movies)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2001
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Byline: Gary Arnold
High-quality imports continue to exert a humbling pressure on Hollywood's summer rubbish. The auspicious example: the Czech import "Divided We Fall," previewed a few months ago at Filmfest DC and now booked exclusively at Cinema Arts and the Cineplex Odeon Dupont Circle 5. Not that a movie has to be in a foreign language to outclass mainstream Hollywood products.
Visions Cinema might want to retrieve and show the earlier features of the Czech team responsible for "Divided We Fall," evidently the fourth collaboration of director Jan Hrebejk, 34, and screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky, 35.
They would appear to be exceptionally deft ...