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The Collegiate Charter School of Lowell is capped at 1,200 students from K-12, and although they have other sports like basketball and volleyball they did not have enough students for a full football roster. This gives their students a chance to play for the first time. Collegiate Athletics Director Kyle Pelczar says, “It’s a great opportunity for our students to play and they are really excited to be part of the team. It’s teaching them that we can make great things happen if we pull together.” The co-op application was sponsored by Lowell Catholic as the host school and approved by the MIAA (Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association), after first being approved by the Commonwealth Athletic Conference (CAC), Lowell Catholic’s athletic conference.

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Cannes award-winner “Anatomy of a Fall” suggests a mash up of last year’s “Tar” with Sandra Huller (“Toni Erdmann”) giving a Cate Blanchett-level performance as a writer accused of her husband’s murder; Ingmar Bergman’s landmark “Scenes from a Marriage;” and, of course, Otto Preminger’s courtroom classic “Anatomy of a Murder.”

Directed and co-written by Justine Triet (“Sibyl”), the film is a dense, sophisticated deep dive into the complexities of a marriage after the French husband dies in a tumble from the third floor of the family’s fix-it-up, wooden chalet in Grenoble, where he, his German writer-wife and their piano-playing 11-year-old son Daniel (Milo Machado Graner) lived.

Before her husband’s death, Huller’s Sandra Voyter is interviewed in the chalet by a young journalist. But they have to give up because Sandra’s husband Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis), also a writer, although a failed one, is renovating on the third floor and blaring deafening music.

When their son Daniel, whose vision has been impaired by an accident, returns to the chalet with the blue-eyed family dog Snoop, he finds his father bleeding and mortally injured at a front of the chalet. He calls his mother. But it is too late; the man dies. How did he fall? He has an injury that suggests that he was whacked on the skull before he fell. Will the wife, the only known person to have been in the chalet, be indicted? A suspect, she is interviewed by the authorities.

One of the many things we learn about Sandra and Samuel (the characters have the same first names as the actors) is that they use real experiences and people they know as fodder for their fiction. In fact in a crucial development, the authorities learn that Samuel may have been recording a fight he got into with Sandra on the day before his death. The case becomes news. Sandra becomes the focus of national attention. Her neighbors in the glorious Alpine city of Grenoble never accepted her, and yet they pack the courtroom where her fate will be decided.

Huller is like quicksilver as the accused wife. It’s impossible to get a fix on her. While she hikes the mountainous area near the chalet, the authorities eerily reenact the accident in the distance using a dummy. At times, “Anatomy of a Fall” reminds one of Park Chan-wook’s similarly labyrinthine and darkly romantic 2022 murder mystery “Decision to Leave.” Sandra and her lawyer Vincent Renzi (vulpine-faced Swann Arlaud) appear on the verge of more than a professional relationship. In one heated exchange with her husband, Sandra says that she was forced by their marriage to leave her home in Germany and her language to live in Grenoble and speak French. In “Anatomy of a Fall,” all marriages are a mystery.

At two-and-a-half hours, “Anatomy of a Fall” can be a tough sit. But like “Sibyl,” Triet’s 2019 “Persona”-like examination of a relationship between a psychologist-writer (Virginie Efira) and an actor (Adele Exarchopoulos), the film is full of fascinating flourishes. At the tribunal, lawyers clatter up and down stairs like mice in a maze, while the “other” audience, the one in the courtroom, sits slavering for more juicy bits about Sandra’s sexual history to be revealed. The film is a sexual house of mirrors. As you try to figure out whodunnit, Vincent whips up a lunch of spaghetti, parmigiano and fresh pepper. Huller is riveting as usual, and “Anatomy of a Fall” gives us a lot to chew over.

(“Anatomy of a Fall” contains gruesome images, profanity and mature themes)

“Anatomy of a Fall”

Rated R. In English, German and French with subtitles. At the AMC Boston Common and Coolidge Corner Theater. Grade: A-

Evil is not stupid.

Its latest incarnation, the Hamas terrorist group, was particularly cunning as it spent some two years planning and training for its Oct. 7 slaughter of over 1,400 Israelis, leaving many more wounded and kidnapping hostages which it still holds. Men, women, children – all indiscriminate victims of the carnage, and all of it calculated.

But the immoral machinations didn’t stop there. Hamas was undoubtedly aware of rising the rising tide of antisemitism around the globe in recent years. As the Associated Press reported in April, antisemitism rose in the U.S. last year as political radicals gain mainstream popularity, according to a report released by Tel Aviv University’s Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League.

The ADL found that the number of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. increased by more than 35% in the past year, from 2,721 in 2021 to 3,697 in 2022.

Hamas may not have had the statistics, but it knew that an attack against Israel would unleash the hounds of anti-Jewish hatred. It was right. From cheering mobs celebrating the slaughter to abhorrent cries of “gas the Jews” at a Sydney pro-Palestinian protest, Hamas tapped into the repugnant vein of antisemitism that has plagued the Jewish people for centuries.

Hamas also knew that the minute Israel defended itself, it would be slammed as the villain of the piece. Joe Biden, in an Oct. 15 interview with “60 Minutes,” noted that Hamas are “hiding behind the civilians,” including by placing their “headquarters where civilians are.” That isn’t by happenstance. Palestinians also suffer at the hands of Hamas.

That’s lost on the anti-Israel crowd.

Even images of the bloody aftermath of Hamas’ barbaric invasion did not sway the dark hearts of those who thought Hamas’ slaughter somehow justified.

And now, as posters of the innocent men, women and children held hostage by Hamas in Gaza have been put up in public places around the world, there are those who are tearing them down.

The signs are simple: “Kidnapped,” followed by the names and ages of those in captivity. There’s four-year-old Ariel, taken along with his infant brother Kfir and their mother Shiri Silberman-Bibas – this poster was torn down in London this week, the act caught on camera and reported by the Daily Mail.

It happened here as well, a dentist was caught ripping down such posters in Boston, she was also caught on camera.

That’s one of the bright spots in this hellscape – for all those who tear down posters of kidnapped children, there are those who film their acts and call them out. For all the trolls taking to social media to yet again spread bizarre conspiracy theories and slander, there are armies of people speaking out in support of the Jewish people.

For every mob chanting “gas the Jews” and similar curses, there are landmarks around the world lighting up with the colors of the Israeli flag in solidarity.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

These are dark times for the Jewish people. Unfortunately, they’ve been here before. But this time they have allies unafraid to lend their support and voice. We doubt Hamas saw that coming.

Editorial cartoon by Joe Heller (Joe Heller)