Showing at the Real West Cinema
11585 Hwy. 180 E, 575.538.5659
February 21, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Admission: $8.00, WNMU Students and Faculty with ID Free
Directed by Amos Gitai
Israel/German, Runtime 115 mins.
Starring:Juliette Binoche, Liron Levo, Jeanne Moreau, Barbara Hendricks
Synopsis: Ana is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother, Uli, when he travels to France for the death of their father. She decides to return to Israel to search for the daughter she gave up at birth 20 years ago. Crossing frontiers by car, train and boat, Ana and Uli are caught up in the turmoil and emotion of the military-enforced disengagement of Israeli settlers from Gaza in 2005... --© IFC
Sponsor:
It Could Be You!!
Presented by the WNMU-Silver City International Film Society
Showing at the Real West Cinema
11585 Hwy. 180 E, 575.538.5659
March 21, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Admission: $8.00, WNMU Students and Faculty with ID Free
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, Runtime 127 mins.
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Lluis Homar, Lola Dueñas, Ángela Molina
A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena , the love of his life.
This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his seudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena. In the present day, Harry Caine lives thanks to the scripts he writes and to the help he gets rom his faithful former production manager, Judit García, and from Diego, her son, his secretary, typist and guide. Since he decided to live and tell stories, Harry is an active, attractive blind man who has developed all his other senses in order to enjoy life, on a basis of irony and self‐induced amnesia. He has erased from his biography any trace of his first identity, Mateo Blanco. One night Diego has an accident and Harry takes care of him (his mother, Judit, is out of Madrid and they decide not to tell her anything so as not to alarm her). During the first nights of his convalescence, Diego asks him about the time when he answered to the name of Mateo Blanco, after a moment of astonishment Harry can’t refuse and he tells Diego hat happened fourteen years before with the idea of entertaining him, just as a father tells his little child a story so that he’ll fall asleep. The story of Mateo, Lena, Judit and Ernesto Martel is a story of “amour fou”, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex. A moving and terrible story, the most expressive image of which is the photo of two lovers embracing, torn into a thousand pieces. --© Sony Pictures Classics
Sponsor:
Alexandra Todd & Stephen Fox
Presented by the WNMU-Silver City International Film Society
