SCREENINGS
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WHOLE LOTTA SOLE (UK) 92mins. Lightning Entertainment. Dir: Terry George. Key cast: Brendan Fraser, David O’Hara, Colm Meaney, Yaya Dacosta. In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market which is coincidentally owned by the same gangland boss Mad Dog Flynn.
humour and compassion — everything Amy needs to get on in life. Arcades 2
JACK AND DIANE See box, right
THE LUCIFER EFFECT 103mins. The Lucifer Effect Films. Gray 5
MR.PERFECT (South Korea) 105mins. Mirovision. Dir: Kim Myung-Gyun. Key cast: Yoon Si-Yoon, Yeo Jin- Goo. Se-jin once a talented professional golfer, lost his voice after a car accident which killed his friend. He visits a small island for a rest. He starts to teach golf to kids there and learns back how to communicate with people from his heart. Gray 1
On the run and wheeling his baby son, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop where he desperately takes hostage an assortment of colourful characters, including Maguire, who may just be the father Jimbo never knew, and Sophie. Surrounded by the police and Mad Dog’s crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament. Lerins 2
PROMO SCREENING: THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON, VEHICLE 19
20mins. K5 International. Palais K
QUEEN FREAK (US) 96mins. GRB Entertainment. Dir: Benjamin EPPS Key cast: Matthew Modine, Kristin Chenowith, Olesya Rulin. A wickedly sharp tale about a dysfunctional family, where the kids take matters into their own hands to re-educate their eccentric and distant parents, in an attempt to form an actual family. Palais E
REDD INC. (Australia) 93mins. Darclight Films. Dir: Daniel Krige. Key cast: Nicholas Hope, Kelly Paterniti, Sam Reid. Six captive office workers
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are chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann. Reddman assigns his staff the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences. Under his twisted managerial style written warnings are carved into foreheads, filing cabinets overflow with body parts and a trip to Human Resources is likely to end in a grisly ‘termination’. Riviera 1
SHANGHAI CALLING (US) 90mins. Aldamisa. Dir: Daniel Hsia. Key cast: Daniel Henney, Eliza Coupe, Bill Paxton. An ambitious New York attorney travels to Shanghai and quickly finds himself in a legal mess. He enlists the aide of an eccentric group of characters to help save his job. Gray 3
WHOLE LOTTA SOLE See box, above
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THE ARRIVAL OF WANG (Italy) 82mins. Rai Trade Department. Dir: Manetti Bros. Key cast: Ennio Fantastichini, Francesca Cuttica.
Gaia, a Chinese language interpreter, is called on an urgent and top-secret job. She meets Curti, a government agent devoid of scruples who needs to
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JACK AND DIANE (US) 93mins. Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing. Dir: Bradley Rust Gray. Key cast: Juno Temple, Riley Keough. Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet on a summer day in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously.
Bubbly and naive, Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open tomboy Jack’s tough-skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving at the end of the summer, she pushes her away. Diane is overwhelmed by her powerful new feelings, and they begin to manifest themselves in terrifying ways. Palais C
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interrogate the mysterious Mr. Wang. But due to the need for secrecy, the interrogation takes place in the dark and unnerved, Gaia has trouble doing her job properly. When the light is finally switched on, Gaia discovers why the identity of Mr Wang is being covered with so much secrecy. Facing her is a creature from another world, an encounter that will forever change her life and that of the entire planet. Palais B
AS ONE (South Korea) 130mins.
CJ Entertainment. Dir: Moon Hyun-Sung. Key cast: Ha Ji-Won, Bae Doo-Na. South Korean ping-pong star Hyun Jung-hwa and North Korea’s Li Bun-hui have each been defeated by Chinese player Deng Yaping — aka “The Ping- Pong Witch’’ — every time they reach a tournament’s finals. Teaming up as a United Korea for the first time in 1991 at the World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba City, Japan makes for moments of crisis and bungled coordination but, game by game, Hyun and Li become a true team. But then comes the announcement that the United Korea team will be inexplicably disbanded. Star 3
BECOMING REDWOOD (Canada) 93mins. Nonstop Sales. Dir: Jesse James Miller. Key cast: Ryan Grantham, Jennifer Copping, Chad Willett, Scott Hylands, Derek Hamilton. Redwood lives alone with his hippie father since his mother left them when he was two years old. His dream is to reunite the family and to do so he plans to become a world champion golfer. When his father is arrested for
illegal drugs, Redwood is sent to live with his mother, her militant husband, two mean- spirited stepbrothers and an elderly, agoraphobic, step-grandfather Earl. Suddenly his life flips upside down. Gray 4
CHILDISH GAMES (Spain) 95mins. Filmax International. Dir: Antonio Chavarrias. Key cast: Barbara Lennie, Juan Diego Botto. Daniel receives an unexpected, and unwanted, visit from a friend who he hasn’t seen since his childhood. His friend is obsessed with his daughter and insists that Daniel has to meet her. Daniel does his best to get rid of him and tries to forget the incident. That same night his friend commits suicide. Laura, Daniel’s wife, suggests they go to his friend’s funeral. There they meet his daughter, a little girl, barely seven years old, who since the death of her father has been taken into foster care. Laura convinces all parties that the best thing is for the little girl to go and stay with them. Riviera 4
DANGEROUS ISHHQ (India) 130mins. IM Global. Dir: Vikram
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