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Philippe Lioret (France 2009) 110 min. 35MM. With Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi. French, Kurdish & English with English subtitles.A compassionate immigration drama about the hope of new beginnings and the power of true love, Welcome centers on two couples contending with issues of separation and dislocation. A 17 year-old Kurdish refugee has struggled his way through Europe for 3 months, trying to reunite with his girlfriend, who recently emigrated to England. Stopped by authorities on the French side of the Channel, he meets a swimming instructor in turmoil over his imminent divorce. Their relationship is an extraordinary account of human bonding that won the Ecumenical Jury & Europa Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Jonas Carpignano (Italy/France/US/Germany 2015) 107 min. DCP. With Koudous Seihon, Alassane Sy. Multiple languages with English subtitles.This remarkably timely, eye-opening look at an all-too-real issue charts the death-defying struggle of African migrants as they risk everything to start a new life in Europe. Ayiva (first time actor Koudous Seihon in a revelatory performance) and Abas (Sy) are close friends from Burkina Faso determined to make it to Italy in order to find work and provide for their families back home. But even after surviving the harrowing journey nothing can prepare the two men for the hostility and violence that awaits them.
Aki Kaurismäki (France/Finland 2011) 93 min. 35MM. With André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Blondin Miguel. French with English subtitles.In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight.
"Leibowitz: Faith, Country & Man". Three-hour documentary, written and directed by Uri Rosenwaks and Rinat Klein. Producers: Haim Slutzky and Dana Cohen of Dana Productions. Sponsored by Israel's Channel 8, AviChai Foundation and Rabinovich Foundation for Cinema. Israel. Hebrew with English subtitles. New release: 2013.
*** Herzog soft-pedals his cinematic ingenuity in this personal documentary about his love-hate relationship with Kinski, whose performances in Herzog classics like "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" and "Fitzcarraldo" helped both of them become towering figures on the international movie scene before Kinski's untimely death. In English and German with English subtitles
*** Assailed by poverty and unemployment, a Belgian teenager makes a series of desperate efforts to get a regular job, hoping this will ensure a normal life for her alcoholic mother and herself. This hard-edged drama has less urgency than "La Promesse," the brilliant 1996 feature by the Dardenne brothers, but it carries a strong emotional charge along with its valuable reminder of the suffering that youngsters may undergo when a heedless society overlooks their needs. In French with English subtitles
*** The sensory pleasures of music are at the heart of this gentle tale about the daily life of a 10-year-old blind boy who may find himself homeless if his carefree ways make him lose his job as an instrument tuner. The movie's exquisitely filmed images and impressionistic sound reconfirm Makhmalbaf as one of Iran's most poetic filmmakers. In Farsi with English subtitles
*** As the Holocaust spreads its tentacles far and wide, a group of Jewish villagers decide to save their community by purchasing a railroad train, putting Nazi uniforms on their most military-looking menfolk, and deporting themselves to Palestine before German boxcars can carry them to extermination camps. More imaginative and responsible than the somewhat similar "Life Is Beautiful," this bittersweet comedy recalls the long tradition of Eastern European tale-telling, which has spun such yarns for centuries as a way of confronting and understanding severe hardships. In French with English subtitles
Based on the best-selling novel by Laura Esquivel, who adapted her own work for the screen, this delightful 1991 piece of magical realism from Mexican director Alfonso Arau contemplates the unrequited love of a single woman for her brother-in-law, which can be expressed only through the sensual meals she prepares for him. (The original novel even contained recipes.) The title, incidentally, derives from a Mexican slang expression that means, approximately, ready to boil. With Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, and Regina Torne. In Spanish with subtitles. 113 min. (JR) Read more
But the harmony goes only so far. Some tourists complain about the difficulty of finding a place to eat on the Sabbath, though there is always the rather charming YMCA café-restaurant right in the center of town. And while God rested on the seventh day, Jews keep up their quarrels. The focus of recent disputes has been the movies. In Jerusalem, they have traditionally been closed on Friday nights. This amounts to a real hardship for many, since Friday is the one night of the week not followed by a working day, and since Israelis are passionate moviegoers. They enjoy their movies even though a considerable part of the screen must be devoted to Hebrew and Arabic subtitles, as well as English ones if the film being shown is a European one.
A 17-year-old travels from village to city looking for his father in this first feature (2005) by mainland Chinese director Ying Liang, who used friends and relatives as his cast and a borrowed video camera. In Mandarin with subtitles. 100 min. aRiver East, 4:30 PM
A bouncer at a dance club in Athens, while suffering a midlife crisis, has an accident on Christmas Eve that he interprets as a religious sign. Vangelis Seitanidis directed his own script. In Greek with subtitles. 84 min. aLandmark, 9:15 PM
winning drama about a 15-year-old (David Kross) navigating his way through a crime-ridden, run-down neighborhood with a large number of Turkish immigrants. In German with subtitles. 98 min. aRiver East, 4:15 PM
Gyorgi Palfi, who wrote and directed the 2002 Hukkle, directed and cowrote this Hungarian black comedy based on stories by Lajos Parti Nagy, about the son, father, and grandfather in a dysfunctional family. In Hungarian with subtitles. 91 min. aLandmark, 6 PM
This anime feature was adapted from a short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui, about a machine that allows its users to enter the dreams of others. Satoshi Kon (Tokyo Godfathers) directed. In Japanese with subtitles. 90 min. aLandmark, 11 PM
A Bangkok taxi driver obsessed with a radio show devoted to golden oldies starts to become attached to one of his customers, a high-priced prostitute. Kongdej Jaturanrasamee directed. In Thai with subtitles. 104 min. aLandmark, 7:15 PM
Returning to his hometown from Milan, a middle-aged professional (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) tries to mediate an ongoing feud between two of his three brothers but only gets drawn in. Writer-director Sergio Rubini creates a fair amount of tension in the first half of this Italian drama, as he delineates the turbulent relationships between the four very different men. But after a murder is committed the film devolves into a fairly standard whodunit with an irritatingly tidy resolution. Rubini, a veteran character actor, casts himself as a sleazy, violent loan shark and gives a memorably menacing performance. With Paolo Briguglia, Massimo Venturiello, and Emilio Solfrizzi. In Italian with subtitles. 112 min. (JK) aLandmark, 8 PM
For his first fiction feature, actor and documentarian Nils Tavernier filmed a modern ballet at the Opera National de Paris about a princess from a poor country where dance is forbidden. In French with subtitles. 97 min. aRiver East, 4 PM
An aging writer (Patrick Bauchau of The State of Things) who has lost his wife and child falls in love with a younger woman in this French feature by Viviane Candas. In French with subtitles. 92 min. aLandmark, 6:30 PM 041b061a72