SCREENINGS
Hollywood, his difficult childhood, the brief love affair with Marilyn Monroe and his failed marriages to actresses Janet Leigh and Christine Kaufman, his courageous stance to break the color barrier with ‘The Defiant Ones’ (the film that earned him an Oscar nomination), and his entire six decade career. Palais F
YUGO AND LALA (China) 86mins. Golden Network Asia. Dir: Yun- Fei Wang. Yugo meets a white liger — half lion, half tiger — who introduces itself as Lala. Shocked that she can understand the animal’s language, Yugo chases Lala up a mountain where a giant Cloud Whale swallows them whole. Inside its stomach there are many different creatures, all excitedly being transported to Animal Paradise, where only 99 chosen ones are admitted every 10 years. But humans beings are forbidden in the kingdom; any that stay for more than three days will be transformed into an
animal. Yugo seeks help from Uncle Bear to find a way home. As time is about to run out, Yugo and Lala uncover Tiger General’s plot to open a magical portal and turn every human being in the world into an animal friend Lala is the portal. Gray 4
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PARADISE LOVE 120mins. Coproduction Office (Paris). Lerins 2
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A.C.A.B. (ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS) (Italy) 110mins. Elle Driver. Dir: Stefano Sollima. ACAB stands for ‘All Cops Are Bastards’, a slogan first used in England in the 1970s by skinheads and which quickly become a universal call to urban guerrillas, both in the stadiums and in the streets. Olympia 4
ANOTHER See box, below
ARBITRAGE (US) 100mins. GK Films.
Dir: Nicholas Jarecki. Key cast: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Laetitia Casta. A hedge-fund magnate is desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire, when an unexpected and bloody error forces him to the most unlikely corner for help. Arcades 2
THE CHERRY ON THE CAKE (France) 85mins. Films Distribution. Dir: Laura Morante. Key cast: Frederic Pierrot, Isabelle Carre, Laura Morante, Pascal Elbe, Patrice Thibaud, Samir Guesmi. Amanda has a complex relationship with men. Florence, her best friend, would really like to see her settle down but Hubert, Florence’s husband who works as an analyst, is very pessimistic. For him, the diagnosis is clear: Amanda suffers from androphobia, a genuine fear of men that causes her to systematically destroy any relationship that could become serious. Events seem to prove Hubert right. Olympia 3
MARKET 16:00
ANOTHER (Japan) 110mins. Kadokawa Shoten Co. Dir: Takeshi Furusawa. Key cast: Kento Yamazaki, Ai Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Ai Kato. Koichi Sakakibara moves to a small town and encounters a pretty young girl with a mysterious eyepatch in the junior high school class that he transfers to. He talks to her but finds that, for some
reason, the other students in the class and even the homeroom teacher behave as if “she absolutely does not exist”. In the midst of this, a classmate dies in a mysterious accident and other classmates and their families also die in horrific circumstances. What curse is leading to this succession of deaths? And what shocking ritual has become part of his junior high school? Palais C
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