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El Paso Museum of Art
Foreign Films
The annual Foreign Film series focuses on contemporary classics of world cinema. Experience the diverse visions of world filmmakers with free screenings each Saturday at 2:00 pm in the Museum's El Paso Energy Auditorium. EPMA's film programming is made possible by funds provided by the Moor Foundation and the Wilma D. Morleen Foundation.
Movies show during the Summer on Saturdays at 2:00 pm (unless otherwise noted) in the El Paso Energy Auditorium and are free to all. Come enjoy a great movie on the big screen.
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FOREIGN FILMS 2008 – July 5 through October 4, 2008 | [back] |
JULY 5 FRANCE
PERSEPOLIS (2007)
Language: French/English/Persian/German
Directors: Vincent Parannoud & Marjane Satrapi
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material including violent images, sexual references, language and brig drug content, 95 minutes.
In 1970s Iran, Marjane ‘Marji’ Statrapi watches through her young eyes the hated Shah’s defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However, as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
JULY 12 IRAN
CHILDREN OF HEAVEN (1997)
Language: Persian
Director: Majid Majidi
Not Rated (brief language), 89 minutes
Majid Majidi celebrates the immediacy and essence of childhood in this delightful tale of a brother and sister who share a pair of shoes when the boy (through no fault of his own) loses his sister’s only pair.
JULY 19 UK/FRANCE/GERMANY/USA
MR. BEAN’S HOLIDAY (2007)
Language: English/French/Spanish/Russian
Director: Steve Bendelack
Rated G, 90 minutes
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two come back together. On the way he discovers France, bicycling, and true love, among other things.
In conjunction with the Art Binational 2008 Exhibition, we will be screening Spanish-language films.
JULY 26 MEXICO/SPAIN/USA
PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006)
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Rated R for violence and language, 112 minutes
This chilling fairytale is set against the backdrop of the fascist regime in 1944 Spain. Young Ofelia finds a magical world inside a stone labyrinth, where she encounters the legendary faun Pan, who tells her she must complete three dangerous tasks to return to her underground home.
AUGUST 2 MEXICO/SPAIN
THE ORPHANAGE (2007)
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Language: Spanish
Rated R for some disturbing content, 105 minutes
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, where she opens an orphanage for handicapped children. Soon, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
AUGUST 9 MEXICO/USA/PUERTO RICO
INNOCENT VOICES (2004)
Director: Luis Mandoki
Language: Spanish
Rated R for disturbing violence and some language, 120 minutes
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980’s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war raging all around him.
AUGUST 16 FRANCE/CUBA
VIVA CUBA (2005)
Directors: Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, Iraida Malberti Cabrera
Language: Spanish
Not Rated (some mature content including brief nudity, language, and violence), 80 minutes
In a take akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parent’s differences.
AUGUST 23 SPAIN
CAROL’S JOURNEY (2002)
Director: Imanol Uribe
Language: Spanish/English
Not Rated (some mature content including sexual references, language, and violence), 103 minutes.
Carol, a twelve-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother’s home village and transforms the secretive family environment.
AUGUST 30 RUSSIA
THE ITALIAN (2007)
Director: Andrei Kruvchuk
Language: Russian
Rated R for brief violence and language, 97 minutes.
THE ITALIAN is based on a true story of a Russian boy abandoned in a rundown orphanage who is adopted by an Italian family and then goes in search of his birth mother.
SEPTEMBER 6 FRANCE
THE VALET (2007)
Director: Francis Veber
Language: French
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, 83 minutes.
In this hilarious comedy of intricate deceptions and misunderstandings, a valet and a top-model have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO’s marriage.
SEPTEMBER 13 HONG KONG/CHINA
SHAOLIN SOCCER (2001)
Director: Stephen Chow
Language: Cantonese
Rated PG for martial arts action and some thematic elements, 87 minutes.
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage. From the director of KUNG FU HUSTLE.
SEPTEMBER 20 FRANCE
AVENUE MONTAIGNE (2007)
Director: Daniele Thompson
Language: French
Rated PG-13 for some strong language and brief sexuality, 106 minutes.
A young provincial girl named Jessica becomes a waitress in Paris and finds her life interesting with the rich and famous, including a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector. They are all at a crossroads in their lives and make her re-evaluate her own dreams of fame and success.
SEPTEMBER 27 UNITED KINGDOM
KINKY BOOTS (2006)
Director: Julian Jarrold
Language: English
Rated PG-13 for some mature content including language and sexual references, 107 minutes
Inspired by a true story, Charlie Price is a Londoner who is stuck with his dad’s failing shoe company when he passes away. He is inspired by a local drag queen named Lola and starts a sassy new line of “kinky boots” in an effort to save the company.
OCTOBER 4 FRANCE/UK/CZECH REPUBLIC
LA VIE EN ROSE (2007)
Director: Olivier Dahan
Language: French
Rated PG-13 for substance abuse, sexual content, brief nudity, language, 140 minutes
From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, legendary French singer Edith Piaf’s life is explored in this biopic. Raised in poverty, Edith’s magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the biggest stars of the period made her a star all around the world known as the Little Sparrow.
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