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Season
2008
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February 17
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Conversations With My Gardener (M) (109 mins)
About
two old dudes who hang around in the garden talking. That doesn't sound
like the most interesting of plots but this film is not about action or
adventure, it's about coming to terms with growing up. You can take a
man from his childhood but you can't take a man from the boy he once
was. You have to be a grown-up to appreciate this movie. Feel like a
summer holiday in the French countryside, painting, drinking
20-year-old bottles of red wine? No worries, Conversations with my
gardener (Dialogue avec mon jardinier) is just the ticket.
NB: French language dialogue with English language subtitles.
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March 16
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Into The Wild (M) (148 mins)
Freshly
graduated from college with a promising future ahead, 22-year-old
Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) walked out of his privileged life
and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the
way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for
countless people. Was Christopher McCandless a heroic adventurer or a
naïve idealist, a rebellious 1990s Thoreau or another lost American
son, a fearless risk-taker or a tragic figure who wrestled with the
precarious balance between man and nature?
Each strand of his
journey is woven into Sean Penn's screen adaptation of Jon Krakauer's
acclaimed best-seller, Into the Wild, which is as much about the
insatiable yearning for family, home and connection as it is the search
for truth and happiness.
McCandless' quest took him from the
wheat fields of South Dakota to a renegade trip down the Colorado River
to the non-conformists' refuge of Slab City, California, and beyond.
Along the way, he encountered a series of colourful characters at the
very edges of American society who shaped his understanding of life and
whose lives he, in turn, changed. In the end, he tested himself by
heading alone into the wilds of the great North, where everything he
had seen and learned and felt came to a head in ways he never could
have expected.
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April 20
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Deep Water (G) (89 mins)
Set
against the backdrop of the turbulent sixties, Deep Water is the
stunning journey of Donald Crowhurst, a free thinking electronics
inventor who enters the most daring nautical race ever - the Sunday
Times Golden Globe solo, non-stop, round-the-world race.
Driven
by his desire to prove to the world that with the help of his
revolutionary invention, an on board computer, one could sail the seas
effortlessly, Crowhurst manically and haphazardly readies his trimaran
to set sail by the late summer deadline. As the race progresses
Crowhurst reports his position which places him as the clear leader,
and he quickly becomes a global tabloid darling.
As the world
waits on tenterhooks for this extraordinary man to cross the finish
line and sail into port to a hero's welcome, the jaw-dropping truth is
revealed.
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May 18
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The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (MA 15+) (160 mins)
Based
on the Robert Hansen novel, The assassination of Jesse James by the
coward Robert Ford delves into the private life and public exploits of
America's most notorious outlaw. As the charismatic and unpredictable
Jesse James (Brad Pitt) plans his next great robbery, he wages war on
his enemies, who are trying to collect the reward money - and the glory
- riding on his capture. But the greatest threat to his life may
ultimately come from those he trusts the most.
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June 15
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The Kite Runner (M) (128 mins)
There is a way to be good again. The story is about the bond that develops in Afghanistan between a
privileged youth and the son of his father's servant, around a love of
kite flying. The relationship fractures when one boy is set upon by
toughs during a kite-flying tournament and the other boy does nothing
to help him. Years later, a reunion amidst the wreckage of the Taliban
regime reconnects the youths.
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