WINTER FILMS FOR 2013
THE INTOUCHABLES
or THURSDAY, January 24, 2013 at 7:00 , STATION THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles
Language: French with English subtitles
The story of the improbable
friendship between a wealthy quadriplegic and a young offender of Senegalese
descent, who is hired as his live-in caregiver. Charmed by his caregiver’s
brash self-confidence and sometimes brutal straightforwardness, the jaded aristocrat
finds the young man’s lack of pity precisely what he wants in a caregiver. Thus
begins an unlikely pairing, one of which will change both their lives in a
remarkable ways. Based on a true story, the writer and director add just enough
real-life seriousness to anchor their narrative, but this simple yet elegant
film never loses its sense of humour.
STILL
or THURSDAY, February 7, 2013 , STATION THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS
Country:
Language: English
Based on a true story of one of a dwindling number of
family farmers in rural New Brunswick
this film introduces us to Craig Morrison who is used to doing things for
himself. Sometimes cantankerous and always stubborn, he’s kept his traditional
farm going in a period when industrial agriculture dominates the marketplace.
The primary reason he’s been able to do so is his relationship with his wife,
Irene, who’s as tough and determined as
he is. But when her health begins to fail, Craig is faced with the choice of
either building a new, more suitable home for her, or leaving the farm they
have lived on for decades. A skilled carpenter, he figures the only obstacles
he faces are time and the weather. That is, until he meets a local building
official who makes it his personal mission to halt construction on the new
house.
or THURSDAY, February 21, 2013 , STATION
THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS
Country:
France
Language:
French with English subtitles
Five aging friends decide to
move in together in this crowd-pleasing comedy, starring Jane Fonda (in her
first French-language film since Godard's 1972's Tout va bien), Geraldine
Chaplin, and Claude Rich. Comfortably retired, they hire a handsome graduate
student as a live-in caretaker and rediscover the joys of "communal"
living -- but when old secrets and long-simmering jealousies emerge, discord
among the group begins to grow.
INESCAPABLE
or THURSDAY, March 7, 2013 at STATION THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS
Country: Canada/South
Language: English, Arabic with English subtitles
A successful Syrian-Canadian businessman lives a comfortable life in Toronto Greece Damascus Syria
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN
or THURSDAY, March 21, 2013 at STATION
THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles
Farewell, My Queen, based on
the best-selling novel by Chantal Thomas, brilliantly captures the passions,
debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that
engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the full-scale
outbreak of the Revolution. With the action moving effortlessly from the gilded
drawing rooms of the nobles to the back quarters of those who serve them, this
is a period film at once accurate and sumptuous in its visual details and
modern in its emotions.
BARBARA
or THURSDAY, April 11, 2013 at STATION THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS
Country:
Language: German with English subtitles
Set in East Germany in the early 1980s, this is a suspenseful film about an accomplished Berlin physician, removed from a prestigious medical post in East Berlin and reassigned to an underfunded rural hospital as punishment for requesting an exit visa from the GDR, who is torn between the promise of escape across the border and her growing love for a fellow colleague — who may be planning to betray her to the secret police.
or THURSDAY, April 25, 2013 at STATION THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles
As she cuts across the fields to take her father his
lunch Patricia meets Jacques. She is eighteen, he is twenty-six. She is pretty,
with the fine manners of a young lady: he is a fighter pilot and a handsome
young man. A full moon will do the rest on their second meeting. There won't be
a third meeting: Jacques is sent to the front. Patricia ends up pregnant. The
boy's rich parents talk about blackmail. Patricia and her father, the
well-digger, will alone have the joy of welcoming her child.
A LATE QUARTET
or THURSDAY, May 9, 2013 at STATION
THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS
Ontario
Trailer:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_late_quartet/trailers/
Country: USA
Language: English
Language: English
A powerhouse cast —
Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener — is assembled
for this dramatically charged tale of an illustrious string quartet that is set
to celebrate their twenty-fifth season as an ensemble with an ambitious recital
of Beethoven’s Late String Quartets.
This milestone soon becomes a catalyst for the members’ assorted personal traumas and reveals a tangled web of jealousy, envy, ambition, and deeply felt affection.
As the film progresses long-repressed feelings and explosive emotions shatter the delicate harmony that has bound the group together for so long. We are guided gracefully through the painful inevitabilities of aging and change that contrast so movingly with the timeless beauty of music.
This milestone soon becomes a catalyst for the members’ assorted personal traumas and reveals a tangled web of jealousy, envy, ambition, and deeply felt affection.
As the film progresses long-repressed feelings and explosive emotions shatter the delicate harmony that has bound the group together for so long. We are guided gracefully through the painful inevitabilities of aging and change that contrast so movingly with the timeless beauty of music.
THE SAPPHIRES
or THURSDAY, May 23, 2013 at STATION
THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS
Country: Australia
Language: English
Language: English
In 1968 four young Aboriginal sisters from a remote mission are
discovered by Dave, a talent scout with a kind heart, very little rhythm but a
great knowledge of soul music. Billed as Australia Vietnam
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