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Drama - Friday November 20th, 2009

The Sea Wall

The Sea Wall

 

(Un barrage contre le Pacifique)

Drama (1h 55min)   Release date : 20/11/2009

Dir. Rithy Panh
starring Isabelle Huppert, Gaspard Ulliel

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In French Indochina, a mother can't cope when her two adult children decide to assert their independence taking their lives into their own hands. The shock she goes through pushes her to her drastic limits...

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Glorious 39

Glorious 39

Drama (2h 8min 50s)   Release date : 20/11/2009

Dir. Stephen Poliakoff
starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy

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Set between present-day London and the idyllic British countryside before the Second World War is the story of the Keyes family. The eldest sibling Anne is a budding young actress who is in love with Foreign Office official Lawrence, but her seemingly perfect life begins to unravel when she stumbles across secret recordings of the anti-appeasement movement. While trying to discover the origin of these recordings, secrets are revealed which lead to the death of her friend. As war breaks out Anne discovers the truth and flees to London when she is caught and imprisoned, only then beginning to discover how badly she has been betrayed.

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An Education

An Education

Drama (1h 39min)   Release date : 30/10/2009

Dir. Lone Scherfig
starring Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan

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A brilliant seventeen year-old girl growing up in the London suburbs in the early sixties, just before they started swinging, is being pushed by her middle-class parents to exceed at school and get into Oxford when her world is turned upsidedown by a charming, sportscar driving older man who seduces her with sophisticated clubs, chic suppers and dream trips to Paris. Her and her parents' dreams go out the window as she tries to balance the mostly contradicatory chores of being an ambitious school-girl with falling in love.

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Bright Star

Bright Star

Drama (1h 58min 58s)   Release date : 06/11/2009

Dir. Jane Campion
starring Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw

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When John Keats - a young, struggling poet - moves to Hampstead with his friend Charles Brown he falls under the spell of his landlady's beautiful, spirited daughter Fanny Brawne. As the sensitive though sickly Keats falls in love with the forthright and flirtatious girl the two become aware that they could never hope to marry on his meagre income and so, when he becomes gravely ill and is sent to spend the winter in the restorative climate of Rome she has no choice but to stay behind in England.

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Broken Embraces

Broken Embraces

 

(Los Abrazos rotos)

Drama    Release date : 28/08/2009

Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
starring Penélope Cruz, Blanca Portillo

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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. Whilst attempting to heal his wounds of the past, a deadly love triangle evolves.

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The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon

 

(Das Weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)

Drama (2h 23min 44s)   Release date : 13/11/2009

Dir. Michael Haneke
starring Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi

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On the eve of World War I in a Protestant village in northern Germany, a series of unexplained events - the village doctor's horse is tripped over when he's out riding, the baron's son is abducted, a woman dies in a mysterious accident - lead to growing waves of suspicion, envy and doubt overwhelming the inhabitants while the school-teacher as the only outsider in the village tries to get to the bottom of what's been going on.

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Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray

Drama (1h 52min)   Release date : 09/09/2009

Dir. Oliver Parker
starring Ben Barnes, Colin Firth

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Dorian Gray is a beautiful but naïve young man when he arrives in Victorian London. He becomes the subject in a painting by artist Basil Hallward, who becomes infactuated with him and his beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets the charismatic Lord Henry Wotton, who introduces him to the hedonistic pleasures of the city. After Lord Henry suggests that the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfilment of the senses, Dorian, realising his looks will one day fade, wishes that Basil's portrait of him decay and age in his stead. Dorian's desire is granted, and he is subsequently plunged into a series of debauched and wicked deeds, having sold his soul.

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Fish Tank

Fish Tank

Drama (2h 4min)   Release date : 11/09/2009

Dir. Andrea Arnold
starring Katie Jarvis, Kierston Wareing

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Fish Tank is the story of Mia, a volatile 15-year-old, who is always in trouble and who has become excluded from school and ostracized by her friends. One hot summer's day her mother brings home a mysterious stranger called Connor who promises to change everything and bring love into all their lives.

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57 1Soloist

57 1Soloist

Drama (1h 56min 53s)   Release date : 25/09/2009

Dir. Joe Wright
starring Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr.

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Journalist Steve Lopez discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavours to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives.

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Welcome

Drama (1h 49min 1s)   Release date : 06/11/2009

Dir. Philippe Lioret
starring Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi

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Bilal a 17 years old Kurdish boy from Iraq sets off on an adventure-filled journey through Europe in the hopes of reaching England to meet his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches the shores of Calais, but has no idea how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel because he can't swim. Bilal soon discovers his destination is not as easily achieved as journey led him to imagine. In Calais he comes into contact with a community of struggling illegal aliens who know nothing about France. This immigrant drama is driven by the uses of documentary austerity and minimalist style, to deliver emotional impact.
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