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June 2008
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Forei gn Films
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New to View
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Vol. 2, No. 6 |
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The Foreign Films New to View newsletter is a monthly publication designed to keep you up to date on some of HCPL's latest foreign films on DVD. The selections in this newsletter are just a sample of the rich variety of films available to you through your library. Use the sign-up box above to have this newsletter sent directly to your e-mail every month, with new, recommended movies for you to view. See Foreign Films Archive.
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Caterina in the Big City, directed by Paolo Virzi
(in Italian, with English subtitles)
You thought American high schools were the only ones full of cliques? Think again. Caterina has just moved from a provincial Italian town to Rome and finds herself in an elite private school with two competing factions of students, each seeking her allegiance. Making matters worse, her father keeps interfering in his own hapless way.
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Charm School, directed by Fernando Sariñana
(in Spanish, with English subtitles)
Teens in Italy aren't the only ones who suffer when they transfer to different high schools. Adela is sent to a prep school by her parents, for two reasons. For one, she has been misbehaving, and for another, her father wants to run for public office and knows she will embarrass him to no end. This time, though, the enemy for Adela is not clashing cliques of students but the headmistress.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, directed by Julian Schnabel
(in French, with English subtitles)
Based on the novel of the same name, this film reveals the plight of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle magazine, who became almost entirely paralyzed due to a stroke. When he emerged from his coma, he could move only his left eye. Angry and bitter, his one wish was to die, but gradually he accepted his fate and learned to communicate and share his story.
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Khadak, directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
(in Mongolian, with English subtitles)
Called "a trippy spectacle" by The New York Times, Khadak explores life on the vast and lonely steppes of Mongolia, where Bagi, an epileptic sheepherder, accepts his role as shaman for his people. When the people of his village are forced off the land and into the wilderness of urban life, Bagi copes, rebels, and transforms, as the forces of people and nature swirl about him.
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Miss Julie, directed by Alf Sjöberg
(in Swedish, with English subtitles)
Based on Strindberg's play, Sjöberg's film paints a portrait of a young, upperclass woman tragically drawn into a relationship with her unsavory and misogynous valet.
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The Orphanage, directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
(in Spanish, with English subtitles)
When Laura purchases an abandoned orphanage, the very one that sheltered her when she was a child, she plans to open a facility for disabled children. As the days pass, however, her young son Simón begins to display disturbing behavior. It's not that he has an imaginary friend; it's more that the friend might actually exist. When Simón vanishes, his mother must resort to the paranormal for help, a direction that stirs dark secrets long suppressed in this disturbing ghost story.
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Private Property, directed by Joachim Lafosse
(in French, with English subtitles)
Pascale is a divorcee who lives in a restored country house with her twin young adult sons. Wishing to begin anew, she plans to sell the house and open a guest house elsewhere. But will her sons cooperate? She hopes her new boyfriend can persuade them, but when he makes an attempt to talk reasonably to them, they discover a secret conjured from the past that further divides the family.
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White Mane, directed by Albert Lamorisse
(in French, with English subtitles)
This short film focuses on a wild white stallion that refuses to be fenced in and broken. A young fisherman living on the marshy land of southwest France finds a curious parallel between the horse's urge for freedom and his own. Like The Red Balloon, also by Lamorisse, this film at first glance appears to be a children's movie in its use of a child protagonist and through the simplicity of story, but it possesses a sophistication of thought and an adult awareness of the deep pain that life can bring to any person - or animal - who longs and fights for freedom. |
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