2001 Mar del Plata International Film Festival
A Single Girl
$21.95 | 90 minutes
The atmospheric, deliberately paced non-adventures of a wistful, angelic, and slightly pregnant Parisian hotel clerk who struggles into single motherhood after separating from her surly, jobless boyfriend&hellip&hellip…
The Disenchanted
$27.95 | 80 minutes
A teenage Parisian girl has her love put to the test when her boyfriend challenges her to sleep with the ugliest man she can find. When three man cross her path, she finds herself fascinated by one of them, the mysterious 40-year-old Alphonse&hellip&hellip…
The Turandot Project
$25.95 | 84 minutes
This film from Allan Miller chronicles the production by director Zhang Yimou and conductor Zubin Mehta of the fantastic opera TURANDOT written by Giacomo Puccini. THE TURANDOT PROJECT is a documentary that shows what happens behind the scenes of two very different performances of the opera--one in Florence, Italy and the other in Beijing&hellip…
Under the Sand
$19.95 | 95 minutes
Francois Ozon's haunting UNDER THE SAND stars the remarkable British actress Charlotte Rampling, who plays Marie Drillon: a strong, attractive, professional, independent middle-aged woman trying to get her life back on track after the sudden disappearance of her husband. Even for a superwoman like Marie, the shock of the tragedy is psychologically&hellip&hellip…
George Washington
$34.95 | 90 minutes
David Gordon Green makes a stunning directorial debut with GEORGE WASHINGTON, a highly poetic drama that tells the story of the inhabitants of a small, impoverished southern town. Focusing on a group of five adolescent friends--George (Donald Holden), Nasia (Candace Evanofski), Buddy (Curtis Cotton III), Vernon (Damian Jewan Lee), and&hellip&hellip…
Before Night Falls
$14.95 | 133 minutes
The life of Reinaldo Arenas, an exiled Cuban homosexual writer, is chronicled in an adaptation of his memoir BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, directed by Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT). Javier Bardem (in an Oscar-nominated performance) portrays Arenas as he journeys from poverty to university to the sexual revolution and homosexual subculture in Havana&hellip&hellip…
Nico and Dani
$26.95 | 90 minutes
NICO AND DANI is a summer coming-of-age flick set in a small beach town near Barcelona. Two teenage boys--Dani (Fernando Ramallo) and Nico (Jordi Vilches)--spend a couple weeks alone at Dani's beach house when his parents leave town. They have always been best friends and have always shared everything. Suddenly they find themselves drifting&hellip&hellip…
In the Mood for Love
$31.95 | 98 minutes
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE centers around Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung), neighbors living in a crowded apartment building in 1962 Hong Kong. Both married to people who are always away, they spend many nights home alone. The two make each other's acquaintance and soon find that they have a lot in common: Both enjoy&hellip&hellip…
Dr. T and the Women
$9.95 | 122 minutes
Robert Altman follows up the good-natured COOKIE'S FORTUNE with this biting satire of an upper-class elitist Dallas community. Richard Gere plays Sullivan "Sully" Travis (better known as Dr. T), a man whose good looks and overflowing charm have made him the most popular gynecologist in all of Texas. Things begin to go wrong for Dr. T&hellip&hellip…
Coronation
$21.95 | 140 minutes
Estela (Adela Secall) is a young girl hired by the grandson of an obstinate old lady; her job is to look after his aging grandmother, who may have amassed a financial fortune over the years, but has lost none of her abusive nature. However, the grandson, Don Andres, becomes infatuated with Estela, while also suffering with his own mental&hellip&hellip…
Daughters of the Sun
$26.95 | 92 minutes
A prime example of Iranian cinema, DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN picked up a Best First Feature award at the Montreal Festival of World Cinema. The story centers around the plight of a woman struggling to find work in the male-dominated Iranian society. Disguising herself as a boy, she takes a job in a carpet workshop where she toils over some&hellip&hellip…
La Ciénaga
$23.95 | 100 minutes
This Argentinean tale, which revolves around a group of families passing summer vacation in a rural country house, does not rely on a concrete plotline, but rather roves, rambles, and stumbles upon each new event. The most notable characteristic of LA CIÉNAGA is its mood--a brooding, dreadful, fearsome tension that does not wain or cease&hellip&hellip…
His Secret Life
$26.95 | 105 minutes
When Antonia (Margherita Buy) loses her husband Massimo in a terrifying car accident, she is devastated. Taking care of necessary business after his death, she runs across a painting, a gift to her husband with a note attached indicating that Antonia's partner of 15 years had been indiscreet for seven of them. She tracks down his lover&hellip&hellip…
Light Keeps Me Company
$21.95 | 75 minutes
Sven Nykvist is one of the most respected cinematographers in the history of world cinema. Among his 123 film credits, Nykvist is known primarily as the man who photographed many of Ingmar Bergman's stark Swedish film classics including PERSONA and WINTER LIGHT. Nykvist's Bergman films demonstrated a style based more in naturalistic lighting&hellip…
Comedy of Innocence
$13.95 | 98 minutes
When a young boy suddenly declares that his name is Paul, not Camille, and requests that his mother take him to his "real" mother, the characters are thrown into a supernatural drama reminiscent of THE SIXTH SENSE. Camille's mother, Ariane (Isabelle Huppert) fulfills Camille's request and takes him to the home of Isabella (Jeanne Balibar)&hellip&hellip…
Stardom
$14.95 | 103 minutes
When teenage beauty Tina Menzhal (newcomer Jessica Pare) is discovered by big city model scouts, she is living a life of quiet contentment in an isolated Canadian town. Adored by the camera, she quickly becomes caught up in the superficial world of fall collections, photo shoots, and celebrity parties. As Tina's fame escalates, she finds&hellip&hellip…
A Paradise Under the Stars
$17.95 | 87 minutes
Sissy, a beautiful young dancer, wants to go to the Tropicana, the famous Cuban nightclub, but her father objects. Things are made more complicated when her father accidentally injures a young man, Sergito, and takes him in to recover from his wounds. Sergito and Sissy begin to fall in love, but there are more surprises in store for everybody. … &hellip
Lost and Delirious
$10.95 | 100 minutes
The story of three roommates at a private school for girls, LOST AND DELIRIOUS centers on Mary (Mischa Barton), who is shy and lonely, having spun on a downward spiral ever since the death of her mother three years before. But when she arrives at prep school and meets her new roommates, Pauline (Piper Perabo) and Tory (Jessica Pare)--fun&hellip&hellip…