A
project of the Asociación Nerjeña Acción
Cultural in collaboration with the Assocacion Cultural Sol de
Almijara.
There will
be at least eight Version Original Films per month - mostly in
English, but there are plans to show Spanish, German, French,Swedish
films.
Films will be on Wednesdays at 19.00 and Saturdays at 14.00 at
the Cultural Centre.
If not possible, the film will be moved to Thursday or Sunday.
Films will be scheduled around author, actors, directors birthdays,
or historical anniversaries.
February
2008
To celebrate
Saint Valentine´s Day enjoy this classic cinema love story.
13 February
- Brief Encounter - (British, 1945)
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard.
Director: David Lean.
A truly wonderful
film. Two ordinary strangers, both married, meet at a train station
and find themselves drawn into a short but poignant romance.
Intense and unforgettable.
Enhanced by the brilliant use of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto.
Adapted by Noel Coward from his one - act play "Still Life".
Original Version (English) with Spanish subtitles.
16 February
- Eden (Germany,
2007)
Josef Ostendorf, Charlotte Roche, Devid Striesow.
Director: Michael Hoffman.
One of Germany's bravest filmmakers does it once again. "Eden"
is a film with a cast, with a camera, with a sound like never
before. Wee see a very fat genius of a cook and a quite lonesome
mother. She falls in love with the cook's... art.
A tricky relationship, intensely captured with a lot of close
ups, painful, funny, it celebrates the beauty of life in a way
you won't expect. Eden won the Audience
Award at the 2006 Rotterdam Film Festival.
Original Version (German) with English subtitles.
20
February- In
the Heat of the Night - (1967) Sidney Poitier´s birthday
With Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier.
Director: Norman Jewison.
Redneck Southern sheriff grudgingly accepts help from big city
black detective in solving bizarre murder. Marvelous social thriller
has not dated one bit - tough, funny, atmospheric, with unbeatable
acting and splendid Quincy Jones score.
Five Oscars include Best Picture, Actor (Steiger), Screenplay,
Editing.
In English with Spanish subtitles.
23 February
La Môme (La Vie en Rose) 2008
Oscar Nominee - (French, 2007)
With Marion
Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Gérard Depardieu.
Director: Oliver Dahan.
An un-chronological
look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf (1915-1963).
Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus
performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood
she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered
by a club owner who's soon murdered, coached by a musician who
brings her to concert halls, then quickly famous. Constant companions
are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with
Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words
of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien."
Won four Bafta
awards: best actress for Marion Cotillard, best music, costume,
make-up.
Nominatatd
for three Oscars, seven BAFTA's, eleven César awards.
Original Version in French with English subtitles.
Cinematic Spanish
History as we enter into the Dia de Andalucia puente 27 February - Laberinto
del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) - (Spain, 2006).
With Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú.
Director: Guillermo del Toro.
The story
of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with
her mother's sadistic and cruel new husband in a rural area up
North in Spain, 1944, after Franco's victory. The girl lives in
an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world
with much chagrin. Fascist repression during the first years of
Franco's dictatorship is at its height in rural Spain and the
girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.
Won three Oscars, three BAFTA, and seven Goya awards.
Original Version (Spanish) with English subtitles.