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Dramatic comedy - Friday November 20th, 2009

A Serious Man

A Serious Man

Drama (1h 45min 21s)   Release date : 20/11/2009

Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick

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When physics professor Larry Gopnik's well-organised life begins to unfold around him he takes refuge in a local motel and seeks advice from a series of rabbis, but none of them - it seems - has the wisdom to help him solve the problems of a socially inept brother who won't move out, his wife and her lover's demands for a divorce, or the student who's trying to bribe him for a pass at a time when he risks losing all hope of getting tenure.

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The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

 

(Le Premier jour du reste de ta vie)

Drama (1h 54min)   Release date : 20/11/2009

Dir. Rémi Bezançon
starring Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman

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Five random days in the lives of a French family, spread out over a dozen years, paint a telling picture of the ups and downs of human relationships. Robert Duval is a taxi driver married to Marie-Jeanne, who gradually shed her bohemian ways with the passage of time. Robert's father has been generous enough to give his son the comfortable home that he shares with Marie-Jeanne and their children. The eldest son Albert is struggling with the demands of medical school, while Raphael is a teen trying to decide what to do with his life and Fleur is still learning how to become comfortable with her femininity. Between 1988 and 2000, the Duval family find themselves dealing with the general life changes that affect most families, seemingly typical but simultaneously revelatory.
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Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock

Drama (2h 0min 18s)   Release date : 13/11/2009

Dir. Ang Lee
starring Emile Hirsch, Demetri Martin

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Elliot Tiber is an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents own a small motel in Upstate New York. Their lives are changed forever when Tiber offers both the Catskills motel and its permit to play live music to the Woodstock Festival's organizers.

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Cold Souls

Cold Souls

Drama (1h 41min 24s)   Release date : 13/11/2009

Dir. Sophie Barthes
starring Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun

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One day Paul Giamatti stumbles on a solution to his paranoid anxiety when he sees an article in the New Yorker about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by deep-freezing souls. Giamatti goes through with the operation only with the intention of immediately reinstating his soul once the its over. Complications arise when a mysterious, soul-trafficking mule hands Giamatti's stored soul over to an ambitious but talentless, Russian soap-opera actress. With no other options he is left to follow the trail back to St. Petersburg.
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Tales From The Golden Age

Tales From The Golden Age

 

(Amintiri din Epoca de Aur)

Drama (2h 11min)   Release date : 30/10/2009

Dir. Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Rãzvan Mãrculescu, Constantin Popescu
starring Diana Cavaliotti, Radu Iacoban

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An unconventional personal history of the late communist period in Romania. composed of five short stories. The stories are told through the country's urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The first short is set on the occasion of Ceausescu's working visits. There countryside mayors are told to hang fruit in trees so that their villages would be noticed. The second talks about the Communist Party's secret regulations which stated that in official pictures President Ceausescu couldn't take his hat off in front of the representatives of the rotten capitalistic world. The third follows a professional driver who opens his sealed truck for the first time and discovers a connection between eggs, Easter and marital love. The fourth is about a policeman who is gifted a live pig as gift before Christmas. He decides that gas poisoning would be the best way to kill the animalwithout it getting noticed by his hungry neighbors. The fifth story is set in 1980's Romania. Bughi and Crina play a type of Bonnie and Clyde who rob people of bottled air.
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Cosi'fan tutte

Drama (1h 39min)   

Dir. Tinto Brass
starring Claudia Koll, Paolo Lanza

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Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump

Drama (2h 20min)   Release date : 07/10/1994

Dir. Robert Zemeckis
starring Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise

Whilst the unintelligent Forrest Gump, haplessly becomes a hero, through numerous fortunate circumstances involving many events of enormous historical importance. His outstanding achievements, mean nothing as his true love seems to hopelessly elude him...
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Drama (1h 39min)   Release date : 10/07/2009

Dir. Rebecca Miller
starring Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore

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At fifty, Pippa Lee positively glows with female serenity, the devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, proud mother of successful twins and a lovely and adored friend and neighbor. But, when her husband spontaneously decides that they should leave New York for a retirement home as a "pre-emptive strike against decrepitude," and has an affair with someone even younger than she is, Pippa finds her beatific persona unraveling in alarming ways. The truth is, the gracious woman of the present day has seen more than her fair share of the wild side. She has finally found love and security in a family of her own. And now, that cozy world, too, is in danger.

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Last Chance Harvey

Last Chance Harvey

Drama (1h 32min)   Release date : 05/06/2009

Dir. Joel Hopkins
starring Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson

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A struggling New York jingle writer and a lonely British bureaucrat meet by chance in London and transform one another's lives forever.

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Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

Drama (2h)   Release date : 09/01/2009

Dir. Danny Boyle
starring Dev Patel, Mia Drake

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How could an orphan boy from the slums of Mumbai possibly know all the answers on India's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? That's the question facing the authorities who arrest 18-year-old Jamal Malik on suspicion of cheating when he is just one question away from winning the top prize. Through a series of flashbacks, we see how Jamal fought his way out of his shanty town birthplace, met and lost the girl of his dreams and wound up on the biggest game show in all of India. But is he really a genius or were the answers learnt from a lifetime of blood, sweat and tears?

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