AFI presents the 22nd annual AFI European Union Film Showcase, a selection of top films from EU member states, including film festival award winners, box office hits and US premieres. AFI thanks the cultural counselors of the EU member states and the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC, for their kind assistance and continued support of the AFI European Union Film Showcase.
Special thanks to Ambassador Jonas Hafstroem, Cultural Counselor Mats Widbom, and the staff of the Embassy of Sweden for their leadership and invaluable support as the current holders of the EU Presidency.
Special thanks, also, to Acting Head of Delegation Angelos Pangratis, Press Counselor Anthony Smallwood, and Cultural Affairs Officer Sandi Auman of the European Union - Delegation of the European Commission to the USA, for their generous and continued support of the AFI European Union Film Showcase.
SWEDEN:
OPENING NIGHT!
MAMMOTH [Mammut]
* Thursday, November 5, 7:00 * / Encore screening Sunday, November 8, 5:00
* Opening Night tickets $12 / $10 AFI Members. No passes accepted.
Swedish writer/director Lukas Moodysson's first foray into English-language filmmaking is a film for and about the global marketplace, and the connections and separations it imposes on families. Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Williams star as a Manhattan couple whose domestic drama has repercussions stretching from New York to the Philippines to Thailand, and back again.
DIR/SCR Lukas Moodysson; PROD Lars Jönsson. Sweden/Denmark/Germany, 2009, color, 125 min. In English, Tagalog and Thai with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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UK:
CLOSING NIGHT!
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
Saturday, November 21, 7:00
Reception to follow screening, including champagne tasting and Belgian beer tasting!
Tickets $15 / $10 AFI Members. No passes accepted.
Working from a sharp script by Julian Fellowes (GOSFORD PARK), director Jean-Marc Vallee (C.R.A.Z.Y.) delivers an energetic, sensitive and smart retelling of the romance between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, with breakout performances by Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend leading the top-notch cast, which includes Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson and Jim Broadbent.
DIR Jean-Marc Vallée; SCR Julian Fellowes; PROD Sarah Ferguson, Tim Headington, Graham King, Martin Scorsese. UK/US, 2009, color, 100 min. In English and German with English subtitles. RATED PG
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SWEDEN:
CENTERPIECE SCREENINGS!
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO aka MILLENNIUM: MAN WHO HATE WOMEN [Män Som Hatar Kvinnor]
Just announced! Encore screening:
November 15, 9:15
This adaptation of Stieg Larsson's international best-selling novel became the all-time box office champ at home in Sweden and a major hit in every other European country where it has played. Down-and-out journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) and punk hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) form an unlikely detective duo, investigating the long-unsolved murder of a young heiress to a powerful family's fortune.
DIR Niels Arden Oplev; SCR Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson; PROD Soren Staermose. Sweden/Denmark/Germany, 2009, color, 152 min. In Swedish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Books will be available for sale in the AFI lobby at both screenings, courtesy of Kramerbooks.
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FRANCE:
CENTERPIECE SCREENINGS!
HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT'S INFERNO [L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot]
Saturday, November 21, 4:00; Sunday, November 22, 7:45
Film restoration specialist Serge Bromberg faces his greatest challenge: restore a film that was never made! In this case, footage shot by Henri-Georges Clouzot-- the French Hitchcock-- for an aborted 1964 project called L'ENFER. The film was to star Serge Reggiani as a hotel owner who suspects his young wife --26-year-old Romy Schneider-- is cheating on him, and becomes progressively unhinged. This documentary assembles Clouzot's amazing footage, and interviews with surviving crew members explain how Clouzot's personal demons led to problems that ultimately undermined the project. A must-see for fans of French cinema. Official Selection, 2009 Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festivals.
DIR/SCR/PROD Serge Bromberg; DIR Ruxandra Medrea. France, 2009, color and b&w, 94 min. In French with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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FRANCE:
CENTERPIECE SCREENING!
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
Saturday, November 14, 9:30
Traveling through the streets of London, the immortal Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) offers passersby the chance of a lifetime: both a good old-fashioned magic show, and, for the more adventurous, a trip into the deepest recesses of their imagination. The hidden cost? Their souls, five of which Parnassus needs to harvest in order to reclaim his daughter from the devil. Boasting an all-star cast, including Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrell and the late Heath Ledger's final performance, this is Terry Gilliam's loosest and most magical film in decades.
DIR/SCR/PROD Terry Gilliam; SCR Charles McKeown; PROD Amy Gilliam, Samuel Hadida, William Vince. France/Canada/UK, 2009, color, 122 min. In English. RATED PG-13
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Opens locally January 8
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