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SALVO
Thu, Dec 19, 9:45; Sat, Dec 21, 10:00
The striking debut feature by writer/directors Fabio
Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza won the Grand Prix in
the Critics’ Week section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri (THE BAND’S VISIT) plays a
Palermo hitman, Salvo, who has a change of heart after he
lays eyes on his target’s blind sister, Rita (Sara Sarraiocco). The
encounter appears to have a startling effect on Rita, too. The
atmospheric imagery, alternating between shadowy interiors
and blazing Sicilian sunlight, is by top cinematographer
Daniele Cipri, whose work can also be seen in DORMANT
BEAUTY.
DIR/SCR Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza; PROD Massimo Cristaldi, Fabrizio
Mosca. Italy/France, 2013, color, 104 min. In Italian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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LATVIA
2013 Oscar Selection, Latvia
MOTHER, I LOVE YOU [Mammu, es Tevi m
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Sat, Dec 21, 11:05 a.m.; Sun, Dec 22, 5:45
His doctor mother works long hours, so Riga kid Raimonds has
free rein to ride his scooter around the city, and get into mischief
with his pal, whose housecleaner mom has keys to a swanky
apartment that the two boys like to explore. What begins as
childish tomfoolery spirals into a more serious problem, with
Raimonds soon learning a hard lesson about the complexities
of the adult world, family and friendship. The vivid, dynamic
cinematography is by AFI alumnus Tobias Datum (SMASHED,
TERRI, AMREEKA, I’M GONNA EXPLODE). Best Dramatic
Feature, 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival; Grand Prix of the
Generation Kplus International Jury, 2013 Berlin Film Festival.
DIR/SCR Janis Nords; PROD Alise Gelze, Gatis Smits. Latvia, 2013, color, 83 min. In Latvian with
English subtitles. NOT RATED
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LITHUANIA
VANISHING WAVES [Aurora]
Tue, Dec 10, 9:15; Thu, Dec 12, 9:15
Research scientist Lukas volunteers for a sensory deprivation
experiment, hoping to tap into the consciousness of and
communicate with a young comatose woman, Aurora.
But the experiment takes an unforeseen twist when the two
make contact in a shared dreamscape, in a state of altered
consciousness. With each subsequent encounter, Lukas and
Aurora’s dream selves are drawn closer together by an
electrifying sexual attraction, and further away from the real
world to which they’re tethered. Winner of Best Picture, Director,
Screenplay and Actress, 2012 Fantastic Fest; Official Selection,
Karlovy Vary, Sitges Film Festivals.
DIR/SCR Kristina Buožyte'; SCR Bruno Samper;
PROD Ieva Norviliene. Lithuania/France Belgium, 2012, color, 120 min. In Lithuanian with English
subtitles. NOT RATED
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LUXEMBOURG
2013 Oscar Selection, Luxembourg
BLIND SPOT [Angle Mort aka Doudege wénkel]
Sun, Dec 8, 9:40; Tue, Dec 10, 7:15
Inspector Hastert is a seasoned Luxembourg City cop on the
cusp of retiring. But when a fellow officer is murdered in cold
blood, he takes on one last case. Hoping to go out with a
bang, Hastert enlists the help of Olivier, a loose-cannon cop
who happens to be the murdered officer's brother. Unfortunately
for Hastert, what appeared to be an open-and-shut homicide
leads down a rabbit hole of corporate corruption, international
intrigue and familial secrets.
DIR/SCR Christophe Wagner; SCR Frédéric Zeimet;
PROD Claude Waringo. Luxembourg/Belgium, 2012, color, 96 min. In English, Luxembourgish and
French with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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NETHERLANDS
THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END
[De Ontmaagding van Eva van End]
Fri, Dec 6, 5:15; Thu, Dec 12, 7:15
Eva van End is a 15-year-old loser, ignored by her dysfunctional
family and laughed at by the kids in school. But things change
after Veit, a strapping German exchange student, joins the
family. With his Nordic good looks and African charity work,
Veit becomes the new school heartthrob, boosting Eva’s own
popularity. But in the van End household, Veit’s charisma has
an unexpected and unsettling effect, as the entire family has its
world turned upside down by his powerful, and impossible to
follow, example. A slyly veiled homage to Pasolini’s TEOREMA,
this quirky, witty coming-of-age story also recalls Todd Solondz’s
WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE. Official Selection 2012
Toronto Film Festival; 2013 Rotterdam, Karlovy Vary Film
Festivals.
DIR Michiel ten Horn; SCR Anne Barnhoon; PROD Pieter Kuijpers, Iris Otten, Sander
van Meurs. Netherlands, 2012, color, 98 min. In English, Dutch and German with English subtitles.
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GOLTZIUS AND THE PELICAN COMPANY
Sat, Dec 14, 3:00; Mon, Dec 16, 7:10
Following his offbeat and magnificent portraits of Rembrandt in
NIGHTWATCHING and REMBRANDT’S J’ACCUSE, eminent
provocateur Peter Greenaway continues his obsession with old
Dutch masters, here staging a scene from the life of engraver
Hendrick Goltzius. Goltzius (Ramsey Nasr) and his theatrical
troupe, the Pelican Company, come to the palace of the
Margrave of Alsace (F. Murray Abraham) in Colmar, seeking
the nobleman’s patronage in order to purchase a printing press.
Reputedly a man of high moral standing, it’s an open secret
that the Margrave’s tastes run to the lascivious, and thus the
troupe’s audition involves staging scenes from the Bible in wildly
imaginative, erotically charged tableaux vivant—ostensibly as
cautionary tales, but self-evidently as titillating entertainment.
Visually stunning, thoroughly ribald and genuinely stimulating—on
any number of levels—Greenaway’s opus on art and eroticism,
on taboo making and breaking, is a must-see for lovers of art and
art history. Official Selection, 2012 Rome, 2013 Göteborg Film
Festivals.
DIR/SCR Peter Greenaway; PROD Kees Kasander. UK/Netherlands/France/Croatia,
2012, color, 128 min. In English, Dutch and French with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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POLAND
WALESA. MAN OF HOPE
[Wałe˛sa. Człowiek z nadziei]
Opening Night Presentation—see p. 2
BABY BLUES [Bejbi blues]
Mon, Dec 16, 9:20; Wed, Dec 18, 9:45; Thu, Dec 19, 5:15
Katarzyna Roslaniec’s follow-up to MALL GIRLS offers another
look at Polish youth warped by consumerist mania, this time in
the person of 17-year-old mother Natalia (Magdalena Berus),
a wannabe fashionista who treats her 7-month-old son Antos
like an adorable accessory, when she can be bothered to give
the infant attention at all. Her boyfriend and the boy’s father,
Kuba (Nikodem Rozbicki), a semi-pro skater, also offers little in
the way of parenting. When Natalia receives an offer to work
in the city’s hippest clothes emporium, she faces a dilemma
finding childcare for Antos, and a rash decision leads to
terrible consequences. Crystal Bear, 2013 Berlin Film Festival;
Official Selection, 2012 Toronto Film Festival.
DIR/SCR Katarzyna
Roslaniec; PROD Inga Kruk, Agnieszka Kurzydlo. Poland, 2012, color, 100 min. In Polish with
English subtitles.
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Courtesy of Film Movement
Courtesy of New Europe Film Sales
Courtesy of Film Movement
Courtesy of Bankside Films
Courtesy of MD4
MOTHER, I LOVE YOU
SALVO
THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END
BABY BLUES
GOLTZIUS AND THE PELICAN COMPANY
