Andrey Zvyagintsev directs this
critically-acclaimed Academy Award-nominated Russian drama. Set in a small town
on the coast of the Barents Sea, the film follows Nikolai (Aleksey
Serebryakov), who, together with his wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) and son Romka
(Sergey Pokhodaev), makes his living through his land and a small auto-repair
shop. When his livelihood comes under threat from Vadim (Roman Madyanov), the
town mayor, Nikolai recruits his old friend Dmitriy (Vladimir Vdovichenkov),
who has gone on to become a successful and respected lawyer, to help him fight
back against the corrupt local government. The movie won the Golden Globe Award
for Best Foreign Language Film.
070.18 OPP
A documentary which challenges former
Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever
cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and
lavish musical numbers.
791.4372 ORP
"Poet, playwright, artist and filmmaker,
Jean Cocteau was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century
and Orphee his finest work of cinema. This magical retelling of the Orpheus
myth turns the lyre-playing singer of Greek legend into a famous left-bank poet
in post-war Paris. Fallen out of favour and lost for poetic inspiration, Orphee
becomes obsessed with a mysterious black-clad princess who first claims the
life of a rival poet, and then Eurydice, his wife. With its unforgettable
imagery - the dissolving mirror through which characters pass into the next
world, the leather-clad, death-dealing motorcyclists, and Cocteau's magical
special effects - Orphee is a work of haunting beauty that follows the poetic
logic of a dream. "--BFI. 'A hauntingly beautiful piece of cinema'.--The
Times. The poet Orphée is popular among the general public but detested by the
avant-garde at the Café des Poètes. A young poet is killed by two motorbikes
just outside the café. His patroness, called The Princess, brings the body to
her car, and asks Orphée to come along as a witness. From the car radio a
monotonous voice is reciting meaningless lines, which Orphée conceives as the
fresh inspiration he has been looking for to renew his writing. In a deserted
house he witnesses how The Princess revives the dead poet and disappears with
him into a mirror. The chauffeur Heurtebis takes Orphée back home, where
Eurydice is longing to tell him that she is pregnant. Orphée ignores her, and
sneaks out to the garage, to listen to the captivating voice in the car radio.
When Eurydice leaves the house, the two motorbikes kill her on the road.
Heurtebis shows the remorseful Orphée how to follow Eurydice through a mirror.
When Orphée finds Eurydice in the other world, a court allows them to return to
life under the condition that he never looks at her. Orphée is tormented by
conflicting feelings, because he is also in love with The Princess, his
personal Death.
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