2009 Souvenir Program Guide - California Film Institute
2009 Souvenir Program Guide - California Film Institute
2009 Souvenir Program Guide - California Film Institute
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN<br />
(LA FILLE DU RER )<br />
WORLD CINEMA<br />
FOCUS: FRANCE Venerated post–New Wave<br />
filmmaker André Téchiné’s latest multi-character<br />
drama is an extremely shrewd, supple tale<br />
of modern French society grounded in a young<br />
woman’s disturbingly naive bid for attention and<br />
connection. Jeanne (Émilie Dequenne), a beautiful<br />
suburban 20-something, moves inattentively<br />
through life, rollerblading by with headphones on.<br />
Her fi rst live-in relationship with aspiring wrestler<br />
Franck (Nicolas Duvauchelle) and her desultory<br />
search for employment mark her out as somehow<br />
detached, even helpless, despite her charm.<br />
Téchiné explores her psyche with a subtlety that<br />
unfolds mesmerizingly, as a defining incident<br />
shifts the trajectory of her story. Based on a reallife<br />
event in 2004—and boasting an outstanding<br />
ensemble cast that includes Catherine Deneuve,<br />
Ronit Elkabetz and Michel Blanc—the fi lm eschews<br />
easy sensationalism for an astute dissection of<br />
intergenerational and interpersonal psychology<br />
that tentatively and provocatively maps the overlapping<br />
terrain of politics, anti-Semitism and<br />
media in contemporary France.<br />
—Rod Armstrong<br />
Director André Téchiné Producer Saïd Ben Saïd<br />
Screenwriters André Téchiné, Odile Barski, Jean-<br />
Marie Besset Cinematographer Julien Hirsch Editor<br />
Martine Giordano Cast Emilie Dequenne, Catherine<br />
Deneuve, Michel Blanc, Ronit Elkabetz, Mathieu<br />
Demy, Nicolas Duvauchelle Print Source Strand<br />
Releasing<br />
FRANCE <strong>2009</strong> 105 MINS<br />
Thursday, October 15, 4:00 pm<br />
GIRL15R, Rafael<br />
Saturday, October 17, 1:45 pm<br />
GIRL17R, Rafael<br />
tickets 877.874.6833<br />
GUY AND MADELINE ON<br />
A PARK BENCH<br />
US CINEMA<br />
Everyone has that moment: the one signaling<br />
the beginning of a romance, or its demise. It’s<br />
the moment rewound and played over and over<br />
again, whether in hope or resignation. Guy, a jazz<br />
trumpeter who doesn’t yet realize what he wants,<br />
and Madeline, the thoughtful girl who loves him,<br />
somehow lose their way together. Standing<br />
apart, the world goes on around them. They fi nd<br />
themselves in both familiar and unexpected circumstances,<br />
and can’t help reminiscing. Interspersed<br />
with musical numbers that highlight<br />
their confusion with a knowing wink, their journey<br />
unfolds in an unsentimental swoon, at once fanciful<br />
and melancholy. Shot beautifully in blackand-white,<br />
the streets of Boston simultaneously<br />
radiate with warmth and shudder with stark reality<br />
in the aftermath of love. Guy and Madeline on<br />
a Park Bench explores the little regrets, replays<br />
the small choices and celebrates the glimmers of<br />
hope that lie within every love affair.<br />
—Kristine Kolton<br />
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer/Editor<br />
Damien Chazelle Producer Jasmine McGlade<br />
Cast Jason Palmer, Desiree Garcia, Sandha Kihn,<br />
Andre Hayward, Frank Garvin Print Source Damien<br />
Chazelle<br />
US 2008 82 MINS<br />
Saturday, October 10, 9:30 pm<br />
GUY10S, Sequoia<br />
Sunday, October 11, 3:30 pm<br />
GUY11R, Rafael<br />
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH SFJAZZ.<br />
HAPPY TEARS<br />
US CINEMA<br />
Dad may have Alzheimer’s, but he’s not the only<br />
one whose mind and life seem to be slipping<br />
out of reach. Sisterly opposites Jayne (Parker<br />
Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) return to their<br />
childhood home in Pittsburgh to somehow and<br />
reluctantly manage their widowed, increasingly<br />
weird and terminally ill father. Mitchell Lichtenstein’s<br />
second feature (follow-up to 2007’s horror<br />
spoof Teeth) explores after its own fashion,<br />
but with equal frankness, themes broached in<br />
Tamara Jenkins’ The Savages (MVFF 2007): Just<br />
what do we owe the imperfect ones to whom we<br />
are family? Musing all the while, with raucously<br />
sardonic but ultimately affi rming humor, on the<br />
legacies of fathers living and gone, Happy Tears<br />
takes supreme advantage of a powerhouse<br />
cast—not least the excellent Rip Torn, who as the<br />
sisters’ deteriorating dad mingles wry raunch<br />
with a gently stirring frailty; and Ellen Barkin in a<br />
brave, not to say bizarre turn as a frighteningly<br />
feral, slyly endearing crack-head gold-digger.<br />
—Robert Avila<br />
Director/Screenwriter Mitchell Lichtenstein<br />
Producers Mitchell Lichtenstein, Joyce Pierpoline<br />
Cinematographer Jamie Anderson Editor Joe<br />
Landauer Cast Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Rip Torn,<br />
Ellen Barkin Print Source Roadside Attractions<br />
US <strong>2009</strong> 95 MINS<br />
Friday, October 16, 9:15 pm<br />
HAPP16S, Sequoia<br />
FILMS E-H<br />
SPONSORED BY STRAWBERRY VILLAGE.<br />
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