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Shall We Kiss?
"Impossibly charming and impossibly French, SHALL WE KISS? is a comic romance full of rueful musings about fidelity and true love."— Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"*****As the cautionary couple, Mouret and the ravishing Virginie Ledoyen command the screen, and Mouret’s direction keeps things utterly amorous…effortlessly channels Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut."— Justin Strout, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"Before a kiss has been given, no one knows if it'll be big or small." So begins this smart romantic comedy in which two strangers meet by chance, enjoy each other's company over dinner, and come to the end of the evening. Will there or won't there be a goodnight (and/or goodbye) kiss? She hesitates and tells him there is a story behind her decision. She narrates (and we see, in flashback) the story of Judith (the lovely Virginie Ledoyen of 8 Women) and Nicholas (Mouret), good friends whose lives become complicated when she, married to his friend, agrees to sleep with him to help him overcome his lack of passion with women. Their consequent intensely passionate affair and unwillingness to hurt others leads to questions about friendship, intimacy, and love, but keeps the tone light, assisted by a wonderful use of classical music throughout. Very French, maintaining that je ne sais quoi that the French do so well. Will she or won't she? And why? The witty and charming SHALL WE KISS? is French sentimental comedy at its best, with just the right touch of melancholy.
France, 2008, In French with English subtitles, 102 min, Unrated, Directed by Emmanuel Mouret
Coming July 10:
Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film
Departures
"When you see the poetic, funny and life-affirming film, you'll have to say that this time the Academy got it right."— Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
"It's a deeply touching movie exploring an incredible range of emotions. Unforgettable."— Jeffrey Lyons, Reel Talk
Departures follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled Departures thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of “Nokanshi,” acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
Japan, 2009, In Japanese with English subtitles, 130 min, Rated PG-13, Directed by Yōjirō Takita
Coming July 14:
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their second--and tightest--full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some order. At the center of it all is Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman), a reluctant would-be messiah who rises to prominence as a result of a series of absurd and truly hilarious circumstances that parallel the life of Christ--providing ample opportunity for the entire ensemble (John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Chapman) to shine in multiple roles as they blaspheme and mock everyone and everything from ex-lepers, Pontius Pilate, and the art of haggling to crazy prophets, Roman centurions, and crucifixion. Directed by Python Terry Jones, MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN is an uproarious biblical parody that does to ancient Rome what THE HOLY GRAIL did to the Middle Ages. Rome is run by pathetic wimps, liberation fronts fight with each other over acronyms, and gladiators put on bloody children's matinees as the people search desperately for someone to lead them out of their life of misery and poverty. And Brian is that man. Sort of. Well, not really. Chapman excels as Brian, a simple, quiet man suddenly thrust in the role of leading the revolution--while constantly being yelled at by his shrew of a mother.
UK, 1979, In English , 94 min, Rated R, Directed by Terry Jones
Coming July 17:
Summer Hours
"Extraordinary. A Masterpiece."— A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"One of my favorite films of the year is this French family ensemble film…superb writing and performances. I loved it."— Michael Wilmington, MOVIE CITY NEWS
The divergent paths of three forty-something siblings collide when their mother, heiress to her uncle's exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly. Left to come to terms with themselves and their differences, Adrienne (Juliette Binoche), a successful New York designer, Frederic (Charles Berling), an economist and university professor in Paris, and Jeremie (Jeremie Renier), a dynamic businessman in China, confront the end of childhood, their shared memories, background and unique vision of the future.
France, 2009, In French with English subtitles, 102 min, Rated Unrated, Directed by Olivier Assayas
2009 KidFest
July 18-26, 2009
Coming July 22:
AZUR AND ASMAR
Blonde, light-skinned Azur and dark-skinned, Arabic
Asmar are foster brothers separated as children.
Years later they are reunited but as adversaries,
each on a dangerous quest through magical medieval lands to find and free the Fairy of the Djinns. A
dazzling new animated masterpiece from the
director of KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS.
UK, 2006/2008, 99 MIN, UNRATED,
DIRECTED BY MICHEL OCELOT
Support KidFest now!
Coming July 24:
O'Horten
"Wonderful…luminous and deliciously funny."— Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Warm and gently humorous…liberally sprinkled with moments of delightful, surreal comedy. Owe is Buster Keaton-like perfection."— Alissa Simon, VARIETY
The moment the train leaves the station without engineer Odd Horten (Bard Owe) aboard, he realizes that the path ahead is a journey without printed timetables and well-known stations. Horten has been forced to retire after 40 years of traveling a very stable rail, and the platform does not feel like a safe place anymore. His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of unlikely adventures and puzzling dilemmas: will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women's red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a nighttime drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? Proof positive that there is humor to be found in aging, and we don't have to be elderly Norwegians to identify, laugh and embrace life in all its idiosyncratic splendor. O’HORTEN is Bent Hammer's (FACTOTUM, KITCHEN STORIES) wonderfully skewed view of the human condition and gives us that somewhat absurdist vision with great warmth, a little melancholy and universal appeal.
Norway, 2009, In Norwegian with English subtitles, 90 min, Rated PG-13, Directed by Bent Hamer
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