| |
|
International Film Series 2003-2004
All films will be shown in Center for
Educational Diversity , (463 E. Kansas Ave.,
next to the Doniphan House) unless otherwise noted.
| September 30 (7:30 p.m., 86 minutes) |
Real Women Have Curves
A young woman learns to love herself in spite of her job, weight, family and socioeconomic standing in this touchingly funny coming-of-age story from first-time director Patricia Cardoso. When Ana graduates from high school, she wants to go to college but ends up working at her sister's dressmaking factory. While there, she awakens her co-workers, family and friends to the injustices of the business and learns a lot about herself in the process. America Ferrera is outstanding as the blossoming Ana in this award-winning film. "Two thumbs up" (Ebert & Roeper). |
| October 29 (7:30 p.m.,, 94 minutes) |
Rabbit-Proof Fence
In 1931, Molly (Evelyn Sampi) and her younger cousins, Gracie (Laura Monaghan) and Daisy (Tianna Sansbury), were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, where they were subject to physical and emotional abuse as they were taught to forget their families, their culture, and their lives up to that point and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. Molly plans a daring escape, and the three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating by following the fence that has been built across the nation to stem an over-population of rabbits. A.O. Neville (Kenneth Branagh), the government functionary in charge of relocating Western Australia's aborigines, takes a special interest in the case of the three girls, and brings in a veteran tracker, David Moodoo (David Gulpilil) to help them, secure in the belief he's acting in their best interest. (Mark Deming, All-Movie Guide) |
| November 18 (7:30 p.m., 118 minutes) |
Good-Bye Lenin!
A dedicated young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from director Wolfgang Becker. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, Alex's (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass), remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal upon his mother's awakening, Alex strives to keep the fall of the GDR a secret for as long as possible. Keeping their apartment firmly rooted in the past, Alex's scheme works for a while, but it's not long before his mother is feeling better and ready to get up and around again. (Jason Buchanan, All-Movie Guide) |
| |
|
|
