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10 New releasesWHATEVER WORKSTHE MILK OF SORROWVIDEOCRACYNEWRELEASEWhatever WorksShowing from Mon 28 JunWoody Allen • USA/France 2009 • 1h32m • 35mm12A – Contains moderate sex references and suicide referencesCast: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley Jr.Has old age turned Woody Allen into an optimist? WhateverWorks, Allen’s first movie in five years set in New York City(and all the better for it!), is also among his most upbeat andhopeful – despite centring on a protagonist who addressesthe audience early on to say “Let me tell you right now: I’mnot a likeable guy.” His name is Boris Yelnikoff. He’s a retiredgenius physicist who was “’almost” nominated for a NobelPeace Prize, and he has a permanent limp after trying tocommit suicide by jumping out a window decades earlier. Ina role he would have played himself at one time (althoughhe actually wrote it for Zero Mostel 30 years ago), Allenhas wisely cast Larry David, who essentially turns Boris intoa meaner, more contemptuous version of his Curb YourEnthusiasm persona. Boris makes a living teaching kids howto play chess, and spends most of his time hanging out at acoffee shop with old pals. But when he reluctantly takes inMelody (Evan Rachel Wood), a naïve teenage runaway fromMississippi, this sets in rotation a wheel of characters (chieflyMelody’s parents, played with great relish by Clarkson andBegley) who have more to learn from Boris’ world than theymight ever have suspected...Don’t expect realism, for this is more morality playthan psychological study, but do expect a whole hostof characteristically hilarious one-liners. And if the filmthreatens to career off the rails at times, it’s to Allen’s greatcredit that it never actually does.NEWRELEASEThe Milk of Sorrow La teta asustadaMon 28 Jun to Thu 1 JulClaudia Llosa • Spain/Peru 2009 • 1h35m • Digital projectionSpanish and Quechua with English subtitles • cert tbcCast: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Bárbara Lazón, DelciHeredia.Winner of the Golden Bear at last year’s Berlin FilmFestival, Claudia Llosa’s second feature focuses on a youngPeruvian woman coming to terms with the death of hermother in a country whose recent history has been markedby bloody civil conflict.Fausta, we are told, suffers from ‘the milk of sorrow’, amelancholy transmitted through her mother’s breast milk.For Fausta’s mother, like many in her village, was rapedduring the years of Peru’s bloody civil conflict in the 1980s,and Fausta still lives with the consequences of the violence.Only Fausta has found a way of protecting herself bothphysically and emotionally to ensure that she doesn’t sufferthe same fate as her mother. Her mother’s death, however,forces Fausta to make decisions that will impact on how shemakes sense of her past.With The Milk of Sorrow, Peruvian director ClaudiaLlosa expertly crafts a film that functions as a tale both ofindividual trauma and of the wider collective memories andordeals of a nation.NEWRELEASEVideocracyMon 28 Jun to Thu 1 JulErik Gandini • Sweden/Denmark/UK/Finland 2009 • 1h25mDigiBeta • English and Italian with English subtitles • cert tbcDocumentaryWith his broad forehead, closely cropped dark hair andgrey banker’s suit, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconiis the least flashy character in director Erik Gandini’shigh-energy political documentary. Berlusconi may notshare the garish clothes and flamboyant public demeanourof the affluent TV producer, cut-throat paparazzo andyoung females auditioning for spots as TV co-hosts thatmake up Gandini’s fascinating and fast-paced film, but thecontroversial Prime Minister is the powerful man behindthe curtain, a TV magnate whose reality shows featuringscantily clad women helped create Italy’s chauvinisticmedia culture, and whose family controls several majornewspapers as well as Italy’s largest publishing house.Gandini takes the complex issue of how Italy’s crass mediaculture led to Berlusconi’s political ascendancy, and makesit utterly fascinating and entertaining.
Maybe you missed...11I AM LOVEA SINGLE MANAN EDUCATIONKICK-ASSMAYBEYOUMISSEDI Am Love Io sono l’amoreShowing until Thu 13 MayLuca Guadagnino • Italy 2009 • 1h59m • 35mmItalian, Russian and English with English subtitles15 – Contains strong sexCast: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, AlbaRohrwacher, Pippo Delbono.Exquisitely shot, beautifully paced and conceived, I AmLove moves through the cultivated world of a wealthyand distinguished industrial family. In a massive Milanesemansion, the Recchi family gathers to celebrate the birthdayof its patriarch. Handsome grandson Edoardo introduces hisnew girlfriend to the family; his sister, Elisabetta, presentsa painting she has made to her grandfather; a young manwho beat the unbeatable Edoardo in a race earlier in the daymakes a surprise appearance on the doorstep; and finally,the grandfather announces his succession plan to his family.All of these events mark the beginning of a narrative thatsees the carefully controlled, hyper-refined sphere of theRecchis come under increasing strain.Director Luca Guadagnino has made a superb film thattouches on many different complexities. While ‘King Lear’comes to mind, I Am Love also bears a resemblance toVisconti’s The Leopard in more ways than one. Both filmsdepict a world on the cusp of change, the magnificent oldorder struggling to hold its place against the rowdy newchallengers. Sexual and class politics also play a key role,as wonderfully controlled moments of passion and emotionsuddenly trouble the surface placidity. Featuring a castheaded by the ever-brilliant Tilda Swinton (here speakingItalian and Russian), this is a stunning work.MAYBEYOUMISSEDA Single ManFri 14 to Wed 19 MayTom Ford • USA 2009 • 1h41m • 35mm12A – Contains suicide theme, moderate threat, drug referencesand nudityCast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode.Iconic fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directorialdebut with the richly detailed and aesthetically brilliantA Single Man. Los Angeles 1962, and 52-year-old Britishcollege professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) is strugglingto find meaning in his life after the death of his long timepartner Jim (Matthew Goode). Through the course of oneday, a series of events and encounters cause him to reflecton his past, and consider whether or not he has a future.An EducationTue 25 to Sun 30 May plusMon 31 May (babies & carers only)Lone Scherfig • UK 2009 • 1h40m • 35mm12A – Contains moderate sex referencesCast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, CaraSeymour, Rosamund Pike.A standout performance from the enchanting CareyMulligan is reason alone to see this lively Nick Hornbyscriptedadaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir of growingup in the west London suburbs in the early 1960s.Barber’s schoolgirl alter ego, Jenny (Mulligan), falls intoa relationship with the older, more worldly David (PeterSarsgaard), who offers her a window on a more materialworld – clubs, champagne, drives in the country, sex– than her Oxbridge ambitions allow...MAYBEYOUMISSEDKick-AssMon 28 Jun to Thu 1 JulMatthew Vaughn • USA/UK 2010 • 1h57m • 35mm15 – Contains strong language, once very strong, and strongbloody comic violenceCast: Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Mark Strong,Christopher Mintz-Plasse.“How come nobody’s ever tried to be a superhero?” Whenordinary New York teenager and rabid comic-book geekDave Lizewski dons a green-and-yellow internet-boughtwetsuit to become the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass, hesoon finds an answer to his own question: because it hurts.But, overcoming all the odds, the eager yet inexperiencedDave quickly becomes a phenomenon, capturing theimagination of the public. However, he’s not the onlysuperhero out there – the fearless and highly-trainedfather-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and HitGirl have been slowly but surely taking down the criminalempire of local Mafioso, Frank D’Amico. And, as Kick-Assgets drawn into their no-holds-barred world of bullets andbloodletting, with Frank’s son, Chris, now reborn as Kick-Ass’s arch-nemesis, Red Mist, the stage is set for a finalshowdown between the forces of good and evil, and theDIY hero will have to live up to his name. Or die trying…AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLESSee page two for details.
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