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Foreign Films February 2024
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Godard Cinema (French)
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery.
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Lie with Me (French)
Novelist Stephane Belcourt has agreed to sponsor the bicentenary of a famous brand of cognac. This is the opportunity to return for the first time to the city where he grew up. There, he meets Lucas, the son of his first love. Memories flood in: irrepressible desire, bodies coming together, a passion that must be silenced.
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The Passengers of the Night
Newly single mother Elisabeth is left to support her two teenage children, Mathias and Judith. Securing a job on her favorite late-night radio show hosted by Vanda Dorval, she encounters struggling teenager Talulah, who she offers a place to stay. In this new set-up, a new dynamic takes hold as each will experience compassion, determination and love, and an abiding bond between them.
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Tchaikovsky: Iolanta and the Nutcracker (German)
When Tchaikovsky premiered his famous ballet The Nutcracker in Saint Petersburg 130 years ago, it was presented as a double bill, as standard at the time, together with the opera Iolanta. The Volksoper Wien, being part home to the famous Wiener Staatsballett, under the helm of the new artistic director Lotte de Beer and music director Omer Meir Wellber presents both works again in one evening, but not as two separate pieces, but by fusing the two works into one.
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To See You Again (Spanish)
Against a backdrop of epidemic levels of disappearances and deaths in Mexico an estimated 360,000 have died since 2006 a group of women put pressure on the government in this powerful portrait of female solidarity. They demanded that a mass grave in the state of Morelos, which the then-District Attorney sanctioned, be exhumed. And the women mothers, sisters, and wives of missing people insist on being present, not just to bear witness, but to catalog the crimes of those in authority who assumed that, because a body was unidentified, it must also be unmourned.
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Walk Up (Korean)
Byungsoo is a film director who goes with his daughter, Jeongsu, an aspiring interior designer, to a building owned by an old friend already established in the design field. She gives them a tour of the property, which includes a restaurant and cooking studio on the first two floors, an office in the basement, a residence on the third floor, and an artist's studio at the top. The three of them amicably chat the day away. But when his daughter leaves to get more wine, Byungsoo is left to spend time with the landlord and the other residents of her building.
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