Films – June offerings at Broadway
Posted on 24. May, 2011 by Mrs Moorhouse in Deutsch, Español, Français
There are lots of foreign films coming up in the next couple of weeks covering all three of our core languages. Read on to find out more about each film.
Julia’s Eyes
Tuesday 24th May – Thursday 2nd June (in Spanish)
“Guillermo del Toro, producer of The Orphanage, presents yet another spine-chilling frightfest, this time about twin sisters who both suffer from a degenerative eye disease. Laced with atmosphere and spiked with sublime moments of shock, Julia’s Eyes proves that the Spaniards continue to make the most stylish thrillers around.”
Molière
Sunday 5th June (in French)
“First there was Shakespeare In Love. Now comes a zesty French period drama which could just as easily be called Molière in Love. Molière was but a poor strutting player at age 22 when he wound up in a debtors’ prison. Historians are not quite sure what happened to France’s great playwright next. So director Laurent Tirard playfully fills in the gap in Moliere’s biography by concocting this satiric tale of intrigue and courtly manners. Hence, the wealthy Monsieur Jourdain offers to buy Moliere’s freedom from prison if he will write his speeches for him as he attempts to seduce a widowed countess. The impoverished young playwright then finds himself embroiled in a hotbed of romance and repartee, subterfuge and seduction, in this intelligently bawdy romp.”
The White Ribbon
Tuesday 7th June (in German)
“This arresting drama, set just before World War I, is the latest film from controversy-courting director Michael Haneke and earned the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2009. In a small German village, a number of unexplained accidents beset the schoolchildren and their parents. Though they at first appear coincidental, it is slowly revealed that they are not accidents at all… This is one of the year’s best films: a tense, foreboding creeper with devastating insight into human nature and why ordinary people sometimes do (or acquiesce to) some very bad things.”
Heartbeats
Friday 27th May – Thursday 9th June (in French)
“Francis and Marie are young, hip Montreal natives; he is sensitive, intellectual and gay, while she is witty and stylish. They are good friends – but all that changes as soon as the gorgeous Nicolas arrives on the scene, and sparks a fierce contest for his affections. Precocious 21-year-old auteur Xavier Dolan writes, directs and stars in this stylish French-Canadian love-triangle.”
Mammuth
Friday 3rd June – Thursday 16th June (in French)
“The story of a man, a mission and a motorbike. Serge is an abattoir worker who retires only to find that he doesn’t have a pension and needs to track down paperwork from his former employers. Hitting the road on his Mammuth bike, he has a series of variously humiliating and inspiring encounters – including a reunion with a long lost cousin, the cue for one of the most outrageous sight gags in recent cinema. Depardieu clearly hit it off a treat with the directors, whose anarchic cheek and up-yours radicalism are, despite a new-found lyricism, here in full force.”
Synopses and Picture by Broadway Cinema
