The intersection of "important" and "good."
This year's Lux Prize has been awarded to Philippe Lioret's "Welcome." What's the Lux Prize, you ask? Why, it's the awards money the European Parliament gives out to movies that -- in the official website's words -- show "the process of building Europe in a different light." This is only the third year the prize has been given out. "Welcome" is about an illegal Kurdish immigrant in France trying to swim the channel to join his girlfriend in England, so it's reasonable to expect that issues of borders and cultural pollination are a big deal. (As the website puts it, "intercultural dialogue and freedom of thought [...] are two of [the prize's] most cherished causes.") In 2007, the prize went to Fatih Akin's "The Edge of Heaven," which is certainly about redefining European boundaries, going back and forth between Turkey and Germany. And in 2008, "Lorna's Silence" won; as a...
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