February 28, 2017 - About Elly (2009)

Tuesday 7 p.m., February 28, 2017
Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Origin:  Iran | France
Language: Persian | German
Running time: 119 minutes

A group of middle-class friends travel from Tehran to spend the weekend at the seaside. Sepideh invites Elly, who is her daughter's teacher, to travel with the three families in order to introduce her to their recently divorced friend Ahmad, now living in Germany. The next morning, the two women go shopping in the town and Elly says that she has to return to Tehran because her mother has been recently submitted to hospital for heart surgery, but Sepideh asks her to stay and hides her luggage. The children are playing in the sea and one mother asks Elly to watch them. Out of the blue, Sepideh's daughter calls to some men playing volleyball to rescue one of the children from the water. After rescuing the little boy they seek out Elly, questioning whether she has drowned or returned to Tehran. What has happened to Elly? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Watch the trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdqMICWhxuA

 

February 21, 2017 - Youth (2015)

Tuesday 7 p.m., February 21, 2017

Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry 104

Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Origin: Italy | France | UK | Switzerland
Language: English | Spanish | Swiss German
Running time: 124 minutes


Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again. Written by Anonymous Love Revolver

 

Watch the trail on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T7CM4di_0c

 

Valentine's Day Special Screening - Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Tuesday 7 p.m., February 14, 2017
Stanley Coulter Hall, Room 239

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Origin: Germany | UK
Language: English
Running time: 122 minutes

Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them? (c) Sony Classics

• Rating:
  R (for language and brief nudity)

 

February 7, 2017 - "The Attorney" (2013)

Tuesday 7 p.m., February 7, 2017

Forney Hall, Room G124

Director: Woo-seok Yang
Origin: South Korea
Language: Korean
Running time: 127 minutes

SONG Woo-seok has no clients, connections, or even a college degree, but his eye for business and appetite for money turn him into one of the most successful lawyers in town. But right at the peak of his success, a local teenager is falsely accused of a crime, then beaten and tortured while waiting in jail. Shocked by these conditions, SONG changes the course of his life, and takes on the case no one else will. This story is based on true events. (c) Well Go USA