An Albanian woman living in Belgium finds her dreams of opening a snack bar with her boyfriend leading to tragedy after she agrees to marry a Russian Mafioso in order to gain citizenship. All Lorna wanted was to start a small business with her loving boyfriend, but in order to make that happen she would first have to gain citizenship. Local mobster Fabio claims that he can make that happen if Lorna agrees to a sham marriage with a man named Claudy. After gaining Belgian citizenship, Lorna discovers that a high-profile Russian Mafioso is also seeking legal entry into Belgium, and soon. He's willing to pay a hearty sum in order to marry Lorna, but in order for that second marriage to be possible Fabio will have to have Claudy killed. Will Lorna be able to remain silent as Fabio's deadly plot unfolds, and what will become of her if Fabio finds out that she has warned Claudy of the impending danger he faces? - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Director(s): Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Starring : Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione Genre(s): Drama Theatrical Release Date:07/31/2009 Country : France
Starring: Rupert Friend, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Felicity Jones Director: Stephen Frears Studio: Miramax Films Rating: R (For some sexual content and brief drug use.) Genre: Drama Release Date: June 26, 2009 (Limited) Official Site: http://www.cheri-movie.com
Cheri is 2009 French/British/German drama film directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend, it is an adaptation of the novel by French author Colette. The film premiered at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.It is turn of the century in Belle Epoque Paris and a scandalous romp is underfoot. The sensational tale begins as the ravishing Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer) contemplates retirement from her renowned stature as Paris’s most envied seductress to the rich and famous. Her plans are cut short when she is approached by a former courtesan and arch rival, the barb-throwing gossip Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates), who encourages Lea to teach her disaffected 19 year-old son — a bon vivant nicknamed “Chéri” (Rupert Friend) — a thing or two about women. The resulting escapades involve power struggles over sex, money, age and society – and unexpectedly, love itself — as a boy who refuses to grow up collides with a woman who realizes she cannot stay young forever. Director Stephen Frears (“The Queen”) and screenwriter Christopher Hampton (“Atonement”) reunite (“Dangerous Liaisons”) to playfully bring Colette’s unconventional romance, CHERI, to the screen.
Genre:Comedy / Drama / Thriller, Country : France [Cert. UK 15, 115 mins] Dir: Claude Chabrol Cast: Benoit Magimel, Caroline Sihol, Francois Berleand, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathilda May, Valeria Cavalli Synopsis : Francois Berleand stars as a jaded novelist and a too happily married "ladies man" whose latest conquest is TV weathergirl Gabrielle Deneige (Ludivine Sagnier). At once naive and unstoppable, Gabrielle doesn't need to be convinced to enter into a sordid May-September relationship with a celebrated member of the intelligentsia. However, tugging at her other arm with the pull of the entire haute bourgeoisie is young Paul (Benoit Magimel), the cute but dangerously schizophrenic scion of a Lyon pharmaceutical magnate. What's a girl to do? Appropriately, the story takes as its starting point a famous Gilded Age crime of passion, the murder of Madison Square Garden architect and notorious womanizer Stanford White.
With elegance and despatch, veteran new wave master Claude Chabrol has brought off his most enjoyable film for some time: . Chabrol gets entertaining performances from his cast, François Berléand, Ludivine Sagnier and Benoît Magimel. This is a very old-fashioned sort of classy French film, in many ways: seedy in an airily sophisticated style, yet also weirdly high-minded. It could be argued that only a man of Chabrol's generation could believe quite so fervently in the plot device of a worldly older man being naturally and irresistibly attractive to a gorgeous young woman. But even this objection is disarmed with a wry smile, and Chabrol's murder scene is, in its coolly low-key way, rather brilliant. The movie gives the title its full meaning only in the final moments, which close the plot shut with a satisfying click.
The action is set in a small French town held in thrall by the local celebrity: Charles Saint-Denis, played by François Berléand, a middle-aged novelist and literary lion whose great days are behind him; he is supposed to have won the Prix Goncourt in 1969, but the creative flame now burns lower. He is doted on by two beautiful women: his wife Dona, played by Valeria Cavalli, and his editor, Capucine, played by Mathilda May, who is in the habit of coming round to Charles's stunning modernist house, sunning herself by his pool in a revealing bathing costume and exchanging deliciously knowing glances with him. Charles is still a womaniser, something that these women tolerate in their differing ways. A classical allusion in the title of his new novel, Penelope's Absence, self-servingly hints at his wayward habits.
Charles, vulnerable to female beauty as always, becomes intoxicated by Gabrielle, played by Ludivine Sagnier, the super-sexy weather girl on the local cable TV station. Her widowed mother, with whom Gabrielle lives a rather sheltered life when the TV cameras are switched off, happens to be the manager of the local bookshop where Charles is doing a signing. It is here that he lays eyes on the stunning Gabrielle.
But Charles has a rival. Paul Gaudens is a spoilt, rich, impossibly arrogant and secretly miserable and messed-up young man, with a notorious past and access to a vast fortune from his late father's pharmaceutical company; his formidable mother, however, still has a grip on the purse-strings. He is played, very nicely, by Benoît Magimel with just the right sort of careless boorishness and snide confidence that there will be enough people who will confuse wealth with charm.
He becomes entranced by Gabrielle, taking her on dates and becoming enraged at her reluctance to sleep with him. His mother is far from happy about Gabrielle, suspecting her of being a gold-digger. It might also have something to do with being a high Catholic - Gabrielle's mother uses the phrase "inshallah", which hints at a serious potential rift. Meanwhile, Gabrielle has sex with Charles and he introduces her to his shadowy club, with its secret panelled room for all manner of secret licentiousness and échangisme
Charles and Paul loathe each other. An encounter at a local restaurant is played out in the form of icy badinage, which in another age could only have climaxed in a duel. Yet they have more than love for Gabrielle in common; they are preoccupied with their own alpha-male status; they are both secretly miserable; they were both abused by masters at school. It can only end unhappily and dramatically.
This is one of those French films that make me wonder where the British equivalent could be. Like Agnès Jaoui's Comme Une Image (2004) or Michael Haneke's Caché (2005), it is unselfconsciously at home in an intellectual environment: there are scenes at literary parties, and television interviews on bookish topics. These are contrived, perhaps, but seem sincere enough. And for some reason, British cinema does not dream of concocting anything similar. (Off the top of my head, I can only think of Roger Michell's film version of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love (2004), with its scene in the London Review bookshop. It isn't exactly the same thing.)
The same goes for its airy, slightly jaundiced dialogue between the older guys at Charles's louche club: they shrug their shoulders expressively at the unending propensity for young women - their daughters, in fact - to date older men. The conversation moves amusingly on to an exasperated discussion of political correctness, which one man dates from the fall of the Berlin Wall, as if that breach admitted all sorts of newfangled sexual politics.
It is a very French confection, and maybe you will need a rather sweet tooth for it. It is also essentially unserious, I think, a poised divertissement, without the dark power of Chabrol's great movies such as Les Bonnes Femmes. A bracing, amusing experience, nevertheless.
Genre :Drama Country : Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden/Germany Release Date : United Kingdom [22 May 2009] Sweden [24 September 2008]United States [6 March 2009] Directed by : Jan Troell Produced by : Thomas Stenderup Written by : Niklas Rådström (screenplay), Jan Troell (story Cast : Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen Synopsis : In Sweden in the early 1900s in a time of social change and unrest, of war and poverty -the young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery, and decides to keep it a decision which alters her whole life. The camera enables Maria to see the world through new eyes, but it also becomes a threat to her somewhat alcoholic womanizer of a husband, as it brings the charming photographer Piff Paff Puff into her life.
Everlasting Moments (Swedish: Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick) is a 2008 Swedish drama directed by Jan Troell, starring Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt and Jesper Christensen. It is based on the true story of Maria Larsson, a Swedish working class woman in the early 1900s, who wins a camera in a lottery and goes on to become a photographer.It has been compared to Troell's previous films Here's Your Life and As White as in Snow, which are both set around the same period.The film won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Golden Globe Awards. It also made the January shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards, but wasn't selected as one of the final nominees.
Title: Teza [2009] Running Time: 120 Minutes Country: Germany Director - Haile Gerima Screenplay - Haile Gerima Producer - Karl Baumgartner Genre: Drama, Foreign Cast : Abvetedla, Aaron Arefe, Takelech Beyene, Abiye Tedia, Review Summary :Anberber finishes his studies in Germany and returns post-graduate to Ethiopia. He is full of hope that he can support his country with his newly acquired knowledge. However, he ends up struggling with disillusionment, desperately grappling with his own foreignness and homeland. Wins : Best Screen Play, 65th Venice Film Festival. Dioraphte Award, 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival
“Teza,” an Ethiopian film about the ruthless regime of the former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who was in power in Ethiopia from 1974 until 1991, won the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, the top prize at the Fespaco film festival in Burkina Faso, Reuters reported. The film’s Ethiopian-born director, Haile Gerima, now lives in the United States, and his sister Selome Gerima, right, also co-produced the film, accepted in his honor at the event, which plays a similar role in Africa to the Academy Awards in the United States. The second-place prize was awarded to the South African film “Nothing but the Truth,” directed by and starring John Kani as a librarian struggling against racism before and after apartheid. The film is based on Mr. Kani’s play of the same name. “Teza,” about a scientist who returns to Ethiopia after studying in Germany in the 1970s, also won best screenplay and a special jury award at the 2008 Venice Film Festival in September.
Matinya Seorang Patriot [1984] Filem Terbaik - FFM 5 [1984], Genre : Drama Direktor : Rahim Razali Pelakon : Eman Manan, Noorkumalasari, S. Roomai Noor Plot : Cerita berkisar pada kematian seorang nasionalis dan pejuang politik veteran bernama Haji Shahban di Kampung Seri Tualang, jauh dari Kuala Lumpur. Ramai yang meratapi kematian orang besar ini tetapi tiada siapa pula pernah menduga kejadian huru-hara yang bakal menyusuli kematiannya itu. Di Kampung saja macam-macam berlaku. Anak-anak tiba-tiba pula berubah sifat, menjadi pendiam dan pemarah sentiasa berkelakuan penuh misteri. Hal ini menekan kehidupan dan perwatakan ibu mereka (isteri Haji Shahban), Mak Aji. Seterusnya perbalahan politik mula mendadak di Seri Tualang. Si gila kuasa, gila nama, gila harta mula bertindak dan bertelingkah untuk mengisi kekosongan yang telah ditinggalkan oleh Haji Shahban. Di Kuala Lumpur, peninggalan Haji Shahban tidak juga kurangnya meninggalkan kesan. Lembaga Pengarah Melati Holdings Sdn. Bhd. sebuah syarikat besar kempunyaan Bumiputera seperti tergoncang berikutan kematian orang kuat kampung itu. Demikian latar yang seterusnya akan mencetuskan beberapa kejadian yang bakal memohon penjelasan seperti pemergian salah seorang anak Haji Shahban ke Kuala Lumpur atas alasan kononnya untuk mendirikan perusahaan sendiri di sana; pertemuan teruna tersebut dengan anak gadis Pengerusi Melati Holdings yang akan membawa mereka ke ambang permainan cinta yang merbahaya; pembunuhan mengejut tiga orang Pengarah Melati Holdings; dan kemuncak cerita yang tragis dan menggemparkan. Matinya Seorang Patriot itu rupa-rupanya ada sebabnya dan ada balasannya. Kedua-duanya di luar dugaan.
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Skrip 7707 [2009] Tayangan : Julai 16, 2009 Genre : Seram Plot : Seorang penerbit filem ingin menghasilkan sebuah filem seram namun ketandusan skrip lalu mengiklankan di suratkhabar mencari individu yang sudi berkongsi pengalaman seram mereka dan kisah yang menarik akan dibayar. 9 orang berjaya dan mereka bertemu disatu malam dan berkongsi pengalaman dan cerita masing-masing. Penerbit berpuashati dengan pertemuan tersebut dan keesokan harinya sedang beliau menyiapkan skrip seram tersebut, pembantunya mengatakan bahawa iklan diakhbar mendapat sambutan dan inginkan persetujuan mengenai pertemuan malam nanti dengan mereka seperti yang dirancang. Penerbit terkejut dan kehairanan kerana pertemuan tersebut telah berlangsung malam tadi!..siapakah yang beliau temui sebenarnya?
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Lion's Den - Leonera [2009] Tayangan : July 11, 2009 [US Out Fest Film Festival] Genre : Drama Plot : Sent to prison for allegedly killing her lover, Julia, a 25 year-old university student, discovers she is pregnant and is sent to a high-security maternity ward to serve her time. Julia's only concern now is her son. Her fellow inmate Marta becomes her ally; her mother SofÃa, her opponent. One attempts to teach her how to be a mother; the other wishes to take over rearing the child. The film, shot in a real prison with inmates as extras, shines a light on a little known aspect of prison life: motherhood behind bars.This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it deals with Julia and her son, Tomas, born inside an Argentinean prison.
An Albanian woman living in Belgium finds her dreams of opening a snack bar with her boyfriend leading to tragedy after she agrees to marry a Russian Mafioso in order to gain citizenship. All Lorna wanted was to start a small business with her loving boyfriend, but in order to make that happen she would first have to gain citizenship. Local mobster Fabio claims that he can make that happen if Lorna agrees to a sham marriage with a man named Claudy. After gaining Belgian citizenship, Lorna discovers that a high-profile Russian Mafioso is also seeking legal entry into Belgium, and soon. He's willing to pay a hearty sum in order to marry Lorna, but in order for that second marriage to be possible Fabio will have to have Claudy killed. Will Lorna be able to remain silent as Fabio's deadly plot unfolds, and what will become of her if Fabio finds out that she has warned Claudy of the impending danger he faces? - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
