Sentences with phrase «tale of a young worker»

Read more >> A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Algonquin, $ 22.95, 304 pages In her humorous and poignant memoir of a wedding and an earthquake in the Dominican Republic, novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) attempts to answer this question as she tells the tale of a young worker on her coffee plantation, Piti, and his efforts to make a life by traveling from his home in Haiti to work in the neighboring country.

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Following intrepid young rookie Mae Holland (Emma Watson) as she finds herself inducted into the hive headquarters of Apple - like tech conglomerate The Circle (with a Google-esque dual housing / work facility that its workers, known as Circlers, never seem to leave), Ponsoldt's film begins by charting an incredibly familiar and shallow trajectory that we've seen in plenty of tales of tech terror like 1984 and Eagle Eye.

A natural companion piece to the director's 2011 immigrant tale, «Le Havre,» «The Other Side of Hope» follows a young Syrian refugee (Sherwan Haji) who finds himself in Helsinki, where he falls in with a group of Finnish restaurant workers whose misadventures have the relaxed, we're - all - in - this - together vibe of a Howard Hawks western.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

A deceptively simple tale of the doomed love affair between an ageing cleaner (Mira) and a young Moroccan gastarbeiter (immigrant worker) which exposes the racial prejudice and moral hypocrisy at the heart of modern West German society.