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COMING SOON
JULY 2009
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Monday July 6th, 7:30 pm
Three Monkeys
Here is a preview, beginning with the answer to most people's first question about the film: the title does indeed refer to Mizaru, Kikazaru, and Iwazaru, of the proverbial injunction against seeing, hearing, or speaking evil. But why must we not, exactly? That's the question embedded in Three Monkeys.
This is the most recent film from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, for which he won the best director prize at Cannes in 2008. Ceylan's five previous films have been rather abstract and austere, but the director is clearly trying to expand his range and his audience with this project: the narrative is quite rich.
The story begins, in Turkey, with a hit-and-run. It turns out that the driver is a politician running for re-election. Rather than give up on his chances of winning, he persuades an employee to take the fall for him and do a short jail term, in return for money. It sounds simple, and will of course turn out to be complicated. (That's how good stories work.) His wife and son both have problems while he is away, and we see how they do and don't communicate with each other. The plot which develops out of this setup follows the classic logic of film noir: rational self-interested behavior gets tangled up in desire, family conflicts, and other such messy emotions.
Ceylan is a photographer as well as a filmmaker, and his films are famous for their beautifully composed shots, languid motion, and precise colour. The reviews I checked agree that this beauty is used in the service of the mood of the story; not the other way around.
The critics also praised the acting by the four leads. They've all been trained in a technique which is quite restrained, and suggests stoicism, or brooding. They must express a range of emotion, but do so in a style which presents a sharp contrast with what we are used to seeing from actors trained in North America.
If you'd like to read more about this film, I suggest A.O. Scott's review in the May 1, 2009 issue of New Your Times. It's posted at mrqe.com.
Three Monkeys is in Turkish, subtitled, and runs 109 minutes. It's rated 14A.
---Peter Blendell |
Monday, July 20th, 7:30 pm
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August 2009
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Monday, Aug. 3rd, 7:30 pm
Summer Hours
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother's succession.
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Monday, Aug. 17th, 7:30 pm
O'Horton
Written and directed by Norwegian helmer Bent Hamer (no we didn’t make the name up) O’Horton is a charming, quirky and eccentric look at one mans life in his “autumn” years post retirement. Think that sounds kind of dull? Read on… Synopsis: 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? |
Monday, Aug. 31st, 7:30 pm
The Queen and I
Filmmaker and Iranian exile Nahid Persson Sarvestani talks with the widow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979. |
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