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Feature <strong>Film</strong>s<br />

44<br />

Romance can unfold at the most inopportune moments,<br />

and that’s precisely what happens to hetero-inclined Mia<br />

and self-aware lesbian Frida, two 30-something career<br />

women who meet at a party celebrating the engagement<br />

of Frida’s mother and Mia’s father. While the two women’s<br />

status as future stepsisters is a formidable obstacle, not<br />

to mention Mia’s own engagement to a man, the two<br />

begin a passionate, emotional and erotic dialogue that<br />

leads to significant conflict between their loved ones<br />

and families. Their parents, in particular, must wrestle<br />

with the collision of the personal and political that their<br />

A Nordic gay couple seeks reconciliation after their<br />

fantasia existence implodes in Let My People Go!<br />

a kitschy romantic comedy fusing Jewish and gay<br />

cultures. Nebbishy Ruben lives with his pretty, blond<br />

boyfriend while delivering mail in small-town Finland. A<br />

money parcel mix-up ends in a lover’s quarrel, sending<br />

a tearful Ruben back to Paris and his devout but<br />

dysfunctional Jewish family. With Passover approaching,<br />

much melodrama ensues involving the ditzy matriarch,<br />

philandering father, ill-tempered brother and unhappily<br />

married sister. Making matters worse, Ruben must repel<br />

KISS Me (KySS miG)<br />

Audience Award Breakthrough Feature,<br />

American <strong>Film</strong> Institute<br />

Sponsored by:<br />

thurs NOV 8 12:00 pm-1:50 pm<br />

FrI NOV 9 6:15 pm-8:05 pm Jenn Harpel, Financial Advisor<br />

daughters’ evolving relationship creates. From the beginning, director<br />

Alexandra-T<strong>here</strong>se Keining fashions an organic, nuanced viewpoint of<br />

Mia and Frida’s unfolding romance. Thanks to the intricacies that drive<br />

the plot, the resulting story arc wisely sidesteps clichéd melodrama<br />

and gains significant momentum via the actresses’ obvious chemistry<br />

and genuinely empathetic performances.<br />

[Dir. Alexandra-T<strong>here</strong>se Keining, 2011, Sweden, Blu-ray, 107 mins.<br />

In Swedish with English subtitles.]<br />

Website: www.wolfereleasing.com<br />

LeT MY peopLe Go!<br />

FrI NOV 9 10:30 Am-12:00 pm<br />

the advances of a closeted family friend and Jewish community elder,<br />

Maurice Goldberg. Lavish to behold, this absurdist comedy offers an<br />

inspired marriage of camp and farce that both celebrates and sends<br />

up gay and Jewish stereotypes in a deliciously perverse fairytale that<br />

milks laughter from every madcap situation.<br />

[Dir. Mikael Buch, 2011, France, DCP, 86 mins. In French and Finnish<br />

with English subtitles.]<br />

Website: www.kinolorber.com<br />

Sponsored by:<br />

sAt NOV 10 7:00 pm-8:30 pm CAMP <strong>Rehoboth</strong><br />

suN NOV 11 10:00 Am-11:30 Am

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