2009 Souvenir Program Guide - California Film Institute

5@5: OSCILLATE WILDLY 5@5: SISTER I’M A POET ACHING HEARTS
5 @ 5
Whether in 2D, 3D or stop-motion, these animated
shorts oscillate wildly between adventure,
whimsy and the purely bizarre. Bill Plympton’s
Horn Dog (US 5 mins) starts the ball rolling with
canine desperation, Julia McLean toys with a
loved one in The Finger Trap (Scotland 4 mins),
Adnan Hussain’s Gul (flower) (US 10 mins)
evokes innocence in a painterly wasteland and
John Fink highlights singing body parts in Glottal
Opera (Australia 4 mins). Ozone holes lead to
roasted chicken in David Baas’s Skylight (US 5
mins), while Robert Robinson’s Styx (Scotland
7 mins) crosses over to the other side. Three
fabulous fi bs come to light in Jonas Odell’s Lies
(Sweden 13 mins), a girl tries to escape her
bulbous mother in Dorte Bengtson’s The Sylpphid
(Denmark 8 mins) and an exploratory mission
goes awry in Jan Rahbek’s Space Monkeys
(Denmark 8 mins). For dessert: a delicious meal
of odd objects in PES’s Western Spaghetti (US
4 mins).
—Amanda Todd
TOTAL PROGRAM 67 MINS
Monday, October 12, 5:00 pm
5AT512R, Rafael
Wednesday, October 14, 5:00 pm
5AT514S, Sequoia
tickets 877.874.6833
5 @ 5
Whether it’s face-to-face, screen-to-screen or
a good old-fashioned love letter, these shorts
explore the various ways we communicate (and
miscommunicate) through words and language.
A couple becomes comically confounded with
unfamiliar words and icons as they attempt to use
their new computer in Constantin Popescu’s The
Yellow Smiley Face (Romania 15 mins). Moises’s
world is a dizzying swirl of letters as he struggles
against the language barrier in Richard Levien’s
Immersion (US 15 mins). The title character in
Bragi Schut Jr.’s Charlie Thistle (US 15 mins) is an
unlikely agent for change as Secretary of Adjustments
and Modifi cations, bringing a little color
to the everyday lexicon. A deaf couple noiselessly
engages in an argument amid the din of a
crowded restaurant in Barry Dignam’s (enough)
(Ireland 3 mins). And Tomer Gendler depicts a
silent exchange of a different kind as a couple
trade sweet nothings on their unmentionables in
Underwear (US 15 mins).
—Holly Roach
TOTAL PROGRAM 62 MINS
Tuesday, October 13, 5:00 pm
5AT513R, Rafael
Thursday, October 15, 5:00 pm
5AT515S, Sequoia
FILMS 5@5-A
(KÆRESTESORGER)
WORLD CINEMA
First love is a universal rite of passage, as are the
trials and tribulations of high school. In Denmark
circa 1961, three young men face the confusion
of romance and adulthood. Jonas can’t fi gure
out what he wants or from whom he wants it. As
sweet, smart and adoring Agnete stands before
him, he wonders, “Do I love her?” Meanwhile,
Birger, Jonas’s friend and foil, thinks he’s got it
all fi gured out. His future appears set, but fate
has other plans for him. And Toke, the elusive
loner, embraces his individuality with a passion
that bears the legacy of his father. As love and
adulthood take hold of all three, twists and turns
abound: Friends become enemies, parents suddenly
appear in all their flaws and nothing is
simple anymore. Strong performances elevate a
delicately crafted drama that unfolds gracefully
and unforgettably, leaving no heart, whether soft
or stone-like, unturned.
—Kristine Kolton
Director Nils Malmros Producer Thomas Heinesen
Screenwriters Nils Malmros, John Mogensen
Cinematographer Jan Weincke Editor Birger Møller
Jensen Cast Thomas Ernst, Simone Tang, Søren
Pilmark, Ida Dwinger, Kristian Halken, Andrea Vagn
Jensen Print Source Danish Film Institute
DENMARK 2009 125 MINS
Friday, October 9, 6:00 pm
ACH09R, Rafael
Saturday, October 10, 3:45 pm
ACH10R, Rafael
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE
ROYAL DANISH CONSULATE.
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