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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Elles(2011)

Elles
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Country: France | Poland | Germany

Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes

The most provocative film at this year's Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals, Elles stars Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes for a magazine article. What begins as a routine assignment, though, quickly turns personal, as Anne is drawn into the lives of these fiercely independent young women and forced to confront her own physical needs and desires. ~ elles-movie.com

A writer is given a new perspective on her life by two women she initially imagines could not be more different than her in this drama from filmmaker Malgoska Szumowska. Anne is a wife and mother who maintains a busy schedule looking after her youngest son, who is obsessed with video games, her teenage son, who spends much of his time stoned on marijuana, and her aging father whose health is failing. Anne's husband is too preoccupied with his own career to worry about the household chores, and she has to juggle it all while keeping up with her work as a journalist. Anne is researching a magazine piece about prostitutes, and she's been conducting extensive interviews with Alicja and Charlotte, both of whom are attractive, well-adjusted women in their early twenties who have turned to sex work to support themselves. As Anne develops a greater understanding of Alicja and Charlotte's lives and work, she sees a contrast in the way the younger women have chosen a trade that, despite its reputation, affords them freedom while Anne's personal and professional life have become something of a trap. ~ Mark Deming, Allrovi
 

When Pigs Have Wings (2011)

When Pigs Have Wings (2011)
Director: Sylvain Estibal
Country: France | Germany | Belgium 
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After a storm, Jaafar, a Palestinian fisherman in Gaza, began by chance in his nets a pig fell off a cargo ship. Determined to get rid of the unclean animal, however, he decided to try to sell it to improve his miserable existence. The poor Jafaar then embarks on a fantastic trade and many unsavory ...
In this tragi-comedy, all the little people of Gaza, wedged between the absolute poverty on a daily basis, the constraints of Israeli military and the diktat of the bearded flying, is represented by the poor fisherman whose sole concern is to survive daily and, for that, everything is ready. Jaafar, a permanent mockery of himself, even in times of tragedy, the story evolves in a biting humor ... and let us hope that if we can agree, despite all the differences, across individual, we can agree ultimately on a collective scale.