Weekend of May 14 – 20 at SFFS | NP Cinema!
at SFFS | NP Cinema
This Week at SF Film Society | NEW PEOPLE Cinema is the continuation of HERE, MICHAEL, and the double feature of Eric Rohmer films, LE RAYON VERT (SUMMER), and FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE!
(Directed by Braden King)
Through May 17
1:45, 6:30pm
Braden King’s debut feature is a carefully composed romantic drama detailing the fraught relationship between Will, a satellite-mapping expert, and Gadarine, the exuberant Armenian-born photographer he meets while conducting a survey of the country. Deciding on impulse to travel together, the film details their unique journey and the dramatic personal transformations it leads each of them through. With memorable performances by Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal as the couple and remarkable footage of the Armenian landscape, Here reinvents the romantic road-trip film with poetic visual and verbal flourishes.
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(Directed by Markus Schleinzer)
Through May 17
4:15, 9:00pm
Superb performances enrich this restrained drama about a quiet pedophile’s home life with a kidnapped boy. Michael is employed at an Austrian insurance company. A solitary and somewhat irritable worker, his behavior gives no indication that at home he has a 10-year-old boy locked in a soundproof room in the basement. By telling this dark story with the cool, impassive gaze of an outside observer which sometimes results in a kind of grim humor, and without making any attempt to explain Michael’s behavior, director Markus Schleinzer creates a strongly disquieting portrait of evil. MORE INFO >>
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(Directed by Eric Rohmer)
*Double feature of classic Eric Rohmer films
May 18 – 24
2:15, 6:45pm
Declared the best movie of the year in 1986 by Andrew Sarris, Le Rayon Vert is frequently cited as a career triumph in a filmography that includes numerous great films. Rohmer stock player Rivière, who assisted in writing her largely self-created role, delivers one of the most captivating lead performances in any of the filmmaker’s works. MORE INFO >>
FOUR ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE
(Directed by Eric Rohmer)
*Double feature of classic Eric Rohmer films
May 18 – 24
4:30, 9:00pm
Over the course of four episodes, two young women—one from the city, the other from the country —meet and bond over an exquisite atmospheric event just before daybreak known as the “Blue Hour” and then room together in Paris, where they encounter many of the inevitable characters of a modern city. MORE INFO >>
