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European Studies Alliance is proud to sponsor two film series |
| “Near
and Far: Films From the New Europe” |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very (very) bad boys. Narrative Feature | Ireland | 2003 | |
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Apr 2 | 9:30pm | |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) This lighthearted take on contemporary immigrant realities tells the tale of an African student in Paris who returns home to Burkina Faso with a white friend. Narrative
Feature | Burkina Faso, France | 2003 | |
Fri,
Apr 2 | 7:00pm | |
Sat,
Apr 3 | 1:00pm | |
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(Madison Premiere) An underachieving genius tries to break free from his isolated Icelandic village with bittersweet results. Narrative Feature | Iceland, Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark | 2003 | In Icelandic with English subtitles |
Thu,
Apr 1 | 7:00pm | |
Sun,
Apr 4 | 1:00pm | |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) Through film clips, journal entries, and personal musings, One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is Chris Marker’s homage to his friend and colleague, Andrei Tarkovsky, who died in 1986. Widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century, Tarkovsky has achieved a mythic status with such visionary masterpieces as Andrei Rublev, Solaris, and Stalker. Through close readings of Tarksovsky's films, behind-the-scenes footage of Tarkovsky obsessively commanding his crew, and candid moments of a bedridden-but-still-editing Tarkovsky with his friends and family, Marker attempts to locate Tarkovsky in his work. Documentary Short | USA | 1999 | |
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(Madison Premiere) Part dark comedy, part biting drama, Pupendo is the story of a sculptor and his family who live exuberantly and defiantly outside the Communist system in Prague. Narrative
Feature | Czech Republic | 2003 | |
Sun,
Apr 4 | 7:30pm | Orpheum - Main Theatre |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) This latest "cine-essay" from Chris Marker is dense and demanding and full of his trademark agility, poetry, and power. Ostensibly a portrait of photographer Denise Bellon, focusing on the two decades between 1935 and 1955, the film leaps and backtracks from a family portrait of Bellon and her two daughters, Loleh and Yannick (the latter co-authored the film), to a wide-ranging history of surrealism, the city of Paris, French cinema and the birth of the cinémathèque; of Europe, the National Front, the Second World War and Spanish Civil War, and postwar politics and culture. Full of Marker jokes, word play, filmic homages, and peculiar art history, the film opens with Dalí and ends with Mompou, traversing in its short time a world of thought, feeling, and history. Documentary Short, Experimental Short | France | 2001 | |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) Winner of the prestigious Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Cannes, Since Otar Left is a bittersweet tale of deception and affection across borders and generations. Narrative Feature | France | 2003 | In French with English subtitles |
Sat,
Apr 3 | 1:00pm | |
Sun,
Apr 4 | 3:00pm | |
| “Danish Cinema Beyond Dogme” (cosponsored by the Danish Film Institute) |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) Director Lars von Trier demands that Danish master Jørgen Leth remake a short film five times under increasingly outrageous constraints. Documentary
Feature, Experimental Feature | Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, France
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Sun,
Apr 4 | 7:30pm | |
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(Midwest Premiere) In this dark and unexpectedly touching comedy, two friends open a butcher shop and become a success with their"special" cuts of meat. Narrative
Feature | Denmark | 2003 | |
Sat,
Apr 3 | 8:00pm | |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) Winner of both the Camera d'Or and Youth Prize at Cannes, Reconstruction tempers lush romantic drama with the fractured narrative of film noir. Narrative
Feature | Denmark | 2003 | |
Sat,
Apr 3 | 1:00pm | |
Sun,
Apr 4 | 5:30pm | |
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(Madison Premiere) Two brothers inherit a Glasgow bookstore and find their self-absorbed lives upended by a shy and intense woman and her daughter in this quirky, tender dark comedy. Narrative Feature | Denmark, United Kingdom | 2002 | |
Fri,
Apr 2 | 7:00pm | |
| For tickets and more information about the films: http://www.wifilmfest.org. |
