This week we have drama in many forms: comedic, romantic, French and live!
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Opening today:
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SAMBA……FILM OF THE WEEK
France | 118 minutes | Comedy, Drama
Directors: Olivier Nakache (The Intouchables), Eric Toledano (The Intouchables)
Cast: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Liya Kebede, Izïa Higelin, Isaka Sawadogo
Samba migrated to France ten years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burn-out. Samba’s willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track…until fate draws them together.
“From the directors of The Intouchables” is all I need to know to want to go see this!
Distributor: Transmission Films
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LET’S GET MARRIED
China | 126 minutes | Comedy, Romance
Director: Liu Juan, Jiang Liu (debut feature)
Cast: Gao Yuanyuan, Jiang Wu, Li Chen, Hayden Bea, Liu Tao, Zheng Kai, Chen Yihan
Based on a best-selling book, and beloved TV series in China, Let’s Get Married follows the lives of four couples looking for love and to find that special someone to say “I do.”
Not my cup of jasmine tea, but looks quirky and fun.
Distributor: China Lion
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NT LIVE: OF MICE AND MEN
UK, USA | 140 minutes | Drama, Live Performance
Director: Anna D. Shapiro (debut feature)
Cast: James Franco, Chris O’Dowd
John Steinbeck’s “powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship” comes to the big screen via the small stage.
Can’t wait to see Franco and O’Dowd in this!
Distributor: Rialto Distribution
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THE LONGEST RIDE
USA | 139 minutes | Drama, Romance
Director: George Tillman Jr. (Men of Honor, Soul Food, Notorious)
Cast: Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Melissa Benoist, Jack Huston, Oona Chaplin, Alan Alda, Lolita Davidovich, Hayley Lovitt
After an automobile crash, the lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man, as he reflects back on a past love.
A solid “date night” option.
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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WOMAN IN GOLD
USA, UK | 109 minutes | Biography, Drama
Director: Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn)
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Helen Mirren, Daniel Brühl, Katie Holmes, Charles Dance, Elizabeth McGovern, Tatiana Maslany
In this true story, Holocaust survivor Maria Altman takes the Austrian Government to Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family but were stolen by the Nazi soldiers during WWII.
Great cast. Really hope the film lives up to its billing.
Distributor: Roadshow Distribution
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Opening Sunday:
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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE: ANDREA CHENIER
UK | 170 minutes | Live Performance
Director: Jonathan Haswell
Featuring: Jonas Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Zeljko Lucic, Denyce Graves, Rosalind Plowright
The poet Andrea Chénier and the servant Carlo Gérard both love the young aristocrat Maddalena. When Maddalena loses everything in the French Revolution, Chénier offers her protection, and so incites the envy of Gérard, now a powerful official.
Another gem for opera fans.
Distributor: Unknown
