World Cinema: Films to Look Forward to This Weekend
World Cinema lovers are bound to get spoilt for choice this weekend. From classics of greatest masters of cinema like Luis Buñuel, Krzysztof Kieslowski and François Truffaut to contemporary festival circuit hits like “Crossed Tracks” and “Caramel” are all set to make it a weekend to look forward to. And if you want more then pack your bags (those not in Delhi) and get ready for ten days soaked in Asian and Arab cinema at Osian’s Cinefan in Delhi’s Siri Fort auditoria.
NDTV Lumiere is releasing two contemporary festival circuit hits in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai.
Crossed Tracks (Mumbai)
Claude Lelouch’s “Crossed Track” was screened at Cannes last year. It revolves around a starved-for-ideas popular writer Judith Ralitzer, who is seeking characters for her next best-seller. A thriller that’s intelligently different from its peers.
PVR Juhu 11:15 PM, PVR Goregaon 9:20 PM, PVR Mulund 8:45 PM
Caramel (Delhi, Bangalore)
Lebanese filmmaker and actor Nadine Labaki first film “Caramel” tells the story of six women’s journey in search of love, marriage and companionship.
PVR Select City (Delhi) 9:20 PM, PVR MGF (Gurgaon) 9:50 PM
Bangalore PVR Forum Mall 12:20 PM and 8:15 PM
Alliance Francaise, Mumbai
The discreet charm of bourgeoisie (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie) by Luis Buñuel
A French masterpiece by Spanish director Luis Buñuel. Roughly based around attempts to have a meal together by six French elites. The reasons for their failed dinner ranges from being funny to insane.
4 July—4 & 6.30 pm - Auditorium Alliance Francaise, Mumbai
Stealing Beauty by Bernardo Bertolucci (ITALIAN)
Renowned Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Stealing Beauty” narrates the story of Lucy Harmon, a nineteen years old girl, who travels to Italy after her mother’s suicide to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara.
9 July–9 , 4 & 6.30 pm - Auditorium Alliance Francaise, Mumbai
Alliance Francaise, Delhi
Three Colours: Red
Final film in the Three Colour Trilogy of Polish filmmakers Krzysztof Kieslowski, Red tells a captivating tale of human bondage. Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbors’ phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who may not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion
July 4, 6:30 PM
A Short Film About Love
A part of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue, the directors’ influential film on love and relationship revolves around 19-year-old Tomek, who whiles away his lonely life by spying on his neighbor Magda through binoculars. She’s an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight..
July 4, 6:30 PM
UTV World Movies
The Spanish Woman
Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. She and her daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. Now Lola is really angry.
July 4, 2008, Friday, 8:45 pm
The Art Of Losing (Spanish, Thriller)
A body is discovered impaled on a stake near a scenic lake near Bogota. A journalist try to find what happened. With a friend, they set about to find the cause of the crime and uncover an intricate real estate fraud involving corrupt politicians, emerald hunters, nudists…
July 5, 2008, Saturday, 11:00 pm
Mocha Film Club, Mumbai (Mulund )
Happy together
Happy Together won Wong Kar Wai, best director’s award at Cannes in 1997. Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai’s life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing’s life shatters continually in contrast.
July 6, 12 PM entry free
Zee Studio
Shoot The Piano Player
Considered one his best, this is the second feature film by Truffaut. By this time he was an established film-maker and the world had welcomed the French New Wave. A story of enormous love and gigantic loss, Pianist reasserts the tragic consequence of love, a theme running through many films of the master. With his masterly touch, an apparently simple story of a pianist falling in love with a waitress turns into a multilayered narrative of passion, sacrifice and guilt, all the while paying a comical tribute to Hollywood gangster films of the 1930s and 1940s.
July 6, Sunday 3:00 PM
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