Juliette Binoche

What will stay with you most powerfully are the words, “God was with us,” etched by the miners on the wall as they get ready to board, one by one, the ascending capsule-on-a-pulley; a kind of moon-landing capsule-recovery, in reverse. It was certainly a moonscape, 2,300 feet down under, that these men inhabited for an unthinkable 69 days.

Stark, severe, uncompromising, dark—these are the qualities imbued by director Ivo van Hove into his production of “Antigone.”

Maria is asked to play the older Helena, while an up-and-coming Hollywood starlet will play the woman whom she had originally portrayed.

Yes, women have also become homicide-suicide bombers in Afghanistan. An Irish photojournalist with the hints of a French accent has the photos to prove it. In fact, she could not stop taking them, contributing to a premature detonation while she was still within the general blast area. She survives, but the damage done to her family unit will be harder to patch up in Erik Poppe’s “1,000 Times Good Night.”