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The foreign language contender With £378,000, including £30,000 in previews from 114 screens, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has posted the biggest opening for a non-Bollywood foreign language film since Coco Before Chanel.

Among the 54 foreign language contenders announced this week by the American Academy is Lilya 4-Ever, a film that is mostly in Russian, was set in Russia and will be therefore be representing... Sweden.

'A Separation' (Iran) The director Asghar Farhadi has an unusual distinction for a foreign-language contender: He is also nominated for his screenplay for "A Separation," simultaneously a gripping marital drama and a detective story.

Elle, a rape revenge comedy from Paul Verhoeven, is one of five foreign-language contenders, including the frontrunner, Toni Erdmann, a German comedy that swept the board at the European Film awards on Saturday, as well as Divines, an urban French gangster drama, Pablo Larraín's Chilean biopic Neruda and The Salesman, the latest from Iranian film-maker Asghar Farhadi.

Vera Drake faces competition in the best film category from titles including Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education, this year's French foreign-language Oscar contender Les Choristes, and its Spanish rival The Sea Inside, whose star Javier Bardem is nominated in the European actor category.

On Wednesday, Ceredigion's Labour candidate Huw Thomas condemned "such divisive and hateful language" while Conservative contender Henrietta Hensher accused Mr Parker of a "dangerous generalisation".

Solidifying his place as the Democrats' top Spanish-language surrogate, VP contender Tim Kaine appeared Monday evening on Telemundo promising immigrant-friendly policies under a Clinton-Kaine administration.

That may encourage other Tea Party types; some may have been discouraged by a new story saying that Rand Paul, another 2016 contender, borrowed language for some speeches.

Best foreign language film: "A Separation," Iran Contender: "Monsieur Lazhar," Canada Long shots: "Bullhead," Belgium; "Footnote," Israel; "In Darkness," Poland The foreign language film committee is nearly as mystifying as the documentary branch in its choices, but its byzantine voting system has produced a solid front-runner in the acclaimed Iranian film "A Separation".

UNDERRATED. 'Mustang' (2015): An Academy Award contender for foreign language film last year, this Turkish import recently added to Netflix feels especially poignant in the wake of the recent unrest in and around Istanbul.

"Bernie and Hillary tend to use concrete language," she explained, "whereas the Republican contenders — with the possible exception of Kasich — tend to use descriptive language.