EAT, DRINK, FILM
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
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18 MEALS
18 COMIDAS WEST COAST PREMIERE
TUESDAY, OCT. 18 | 3:45 PM | REGAL DOLE SUNDAY, OCT. 23 | 5:30 PM | REGAL DOLE SPAIN 2010 | SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 107M
DIRECTOR: Jorge Coira SCREENWRITER: Jorge Coira, Diego Ameixeiras, Araceli Gonda PRODUCERS: Hugo Castro Fau, Farruco Castroman, Fernanda Del Nido, Luis Tosar CINEMATOGRAPHER: Brand Ferro CAST: Esperanza Pedreno, Luis Tosar, Pedro Alonso, Victor Fabregas, Fede Perez
Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira’s debut feature, shot over nine days in Santiago de Compostela has enough tasty portions to please all audiences.
Amongst Coira’s expansive ensemble are aging street musician Edu, a pair awaking from a one-night stand, a businessman visiting his closeted homosexual brother and a lonely housewife, Sol. Victor and Sol are two of 18 MEALS’ most fascinating characters as they each hide something – his sexuality, her depression – from those around them. Best of all is Pedro Alsono as Vladimir, a local celebrity actor who makes a meal for a mystery woman who never arrives. Who hasn’t gone to a lot of trouble to do something extra special for someone just to have it go unappreciated? Make sure you stuff yourself silly with cuisine before the movie or else your taste buds will be salivating after the first shot. –Glenn Dunks
BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19 | 3:30 PM | REGAL DOLE SATURDAY, OCT. 22 | 11:30 AM | REGAL DOLE SINGAPORE 2010 | CANTONESE, MANDARIN, THAI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 87M
DIRECTOR: Kaz Cai, Wang Jing, Anocha Suwichakornpong SCREENWRITER: Kaz Cai, Wang Jing, Anocha Suwichakornpong PRODUCERS: Tay Bee Pin, Soros Sukhum, Dai Yuxin CINEMATOGRAPHER: Morgan Peline, Wang Sanshang, Han Yan, M.R. Umpornpol Yugala CAST: Beatrice Chien, Waing Pin, Kamolluk Piyavittayanon
This film trilogy by three female Asian directors focuses on love. The stories from China (Wang), Thailand (Suwichakornpong) and Singapore (Cai) are varied in tone, but all concentrate on mealtimes. Also, all the female protagonists are called Mei, we keep hearing ‘Who wants to marry me?’ and in the background we hear the news of the murder of Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan.
A young woman and her boyfriend have breakfast. She is visiting him in Nanjing. While they roam around, they discuss their mutual past and the future. The lunch is lighter in tone: two teenagers discuss life and love, bored as only teenagers can be. The dinner is in Singapore. In this melancholy story, a man looks for love and a lonely old woman reflects on her past. The stories reflect the complexity and beauty of love, seen from various Asian perspectives. Restrained, controlled and sensitive. –International Film Festival Rotterdam
JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI / THE SALT OF LIFE
18 MEALS / FOLK SONGS SINGING
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