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May 2008
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Forei gn Films
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New to View
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Vol. 2, No. 5 |
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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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Bamako, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
(in French and Bambara, with English subtitles)
Are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund the culprits behind the sufferings of the people of Africa? As a fantasy trial unfolds in a courtyard of a house in Bamako, Mali, with real-life witnesses giving testamony, another more intimate story unfolds of a man and a woman enduring a marital breakup. Their sadness becomes a microcosm of the larger sorrows of a continent.
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Blame It on Fidel, directed by Julie Gavras
(in French, with English subtitles)
Anna is a young bourgeois girl in 1970's Paris, living a life full of middle class comfort and values. Then her lawyer and journalist parents decide to become more, well, radical, and Anna's focus shifts first to a struggle to reconcile her world view with her parents' and then to insight and understanding as events of the seventies unfold before her eyes.
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Exiled, directed by Johnnie To
(in Cantonese, with English subtitles)
What happens to mobsters who try to go straight? The boss goes after them, with deadly intent. Wo is an ex-gangster who is just trying to get by with his little family. Two hit men are after him for defying the boss, but they also happen to be his friends. Influenced by Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, To melds art and violence in this tale of betrayal and loyalty, vengence and honor, where the exile may be more than the bad guy gone good.
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Mafioso, directed by Alberto Lattuada
(in Italian and Sicilian, with English subtitles)
Nino lives a perfectly respectable life as a factory worker in Milan, but when he travels with his family back to his hometown in Sicily, he discovers some dark family secrets. And when he is asked to aid a mafia boss, the meaning of "family" becomes broader and more compelling.
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, directed by Sergei Paradzhanov
(in Ukranian, with English subtitles)
Set in the Carpathian mountains, in the midst of a culture little changed for a thousand years, Ivanko meets Marichka at his father's funeral. Unfortunately, it was Marichka's father who killed the man. The family enmity does not hinder the growing love between the young people, however. Ultimately they are separated forever, when Marichka dies in an accident. Then follows Ivanko's soulful journey from despair to lingering unhappiness. The exotic setting creates an atmosphere of the unearthly, leading the viewer into a world likely not seen before, where the supernatural and the natural blend and merge in images both unforgettable and magical. |
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