MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY • Fall 2018 INEMA INTERNATIONAL Students, faculty, staff and the community are invited • ADMISSION IS FREE 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings • Curris Center Theatre This program includes a French Film Festival and a WWI Centennial Special, made possible by a grant from the French Embassy (Tournées Festival/FACE) Cinema International is part of Murray State University’s educational mission.

AUG. 23-24-25 • FRANCE, 2014 SEPT. 27-28-29 • FRANCE, 1936 (CLASSIC MOVIE) Far from Men The Crime of Monsieur Lange Dir. David Oelhoffen. Dir. Jean Renoir With Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek With René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry In French, Arabic, Spanish with English subtitles, PG-13, 102 min. In French with English subtitles. NR, 80 min. Algeria, 1954. The of independence ignited. Viggo Mortensen stars One of the liveliest films from French cinema’s abiding master, Jean Renoir as a reclusive French teacher in a remote school in the Atlas mountains, who who collaborated on the screenplay with poet Jacques Prévert. The Crime reluctantly has to escort to justice Mohamed, a villager accused of murder. Two of Monsieur Lange is Renoir’s inspiring political manifesto about a publishing very different men thrown together by a world in turmoil. Based on the short cooperative, dedicated to egalitarianism. It is part social commentary in story The Guest by -who as Franco-Algerian “pied noir” grasped the spirit of the Popular Front of the 30’s and part romance. Blunt in its that the great majority of the settlers in any country, Algeria in particular, were as outrage over workplace abuses, the movie takes an affectionate interest in much victims of the circumstances as the locals, and made the claims for decency the daily life of people. It is also a sophisticated look at relations between and empathy. “No human being is more indigenous to a place than any other. This men and women. Renoir claimed in his autobiography that this film led to his remains an unfashionable, even taboo, position.” (The New Yorker, April 30, 2015) becoming strongly associated with resistance to fascism and the Nazis: “I am a filmmaker, and this is the only way in which I could play a part in the battle”. AUG. 30-31 (closed Sat. for labor day) • SWITZERLAND, 2016 (Renoir, Jean. My Life and My Films, New York: Da Capo Press, 2000) My Life as a Zucchini OCT. 5-6 NO FILM, FALL BREAK Dir. Claude Barras. Screenplay: Céline Sciamma In French with English subtitles. PG-13, 70 mins. OCT. 11-12-13 • FRANCE/GERMANY/NETHERLANDS, 2015 Based on a book by Gilles Paris, My Life as a Zucchini is imbued with a real- Francofonia life sense of childhood wonder through its inventive animation. The film is Dir. Alexander Sokurov exclusively telling the story from the children’s perspective: after losing his With Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Johanna Korthals Altes. mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love. Its idiosyncratic In Russian, French with English subtitles. NR, 90 min. style and bold treatment of its subject makes this animation as appealing to Francofonia is the great Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov’s exploration young people and adults alike. Nominated for the 2017 Academy Award Best of European culture and history as seen through the story of the Louvre Animated Feature. (Tournées Festival) museum in Paris, with a particular focus on its fortunes during World War II. The film moves between several narrative strands: France’s national symbol SEPT. 6-7-8 • GERMANY, 2014 Marianne roaming the museum’s collections with Napoleon Bonaparte; the true friendship between the Louvre’s wartime French curator and the Nazis’ Schönefeld Boulevard head of artistic preservation/appropriation. This reflection on the history of Dir. Sylke Enders the relationship between art and power in twentieth-century Europe testifies With Julia Jendroßek, Daniel Sträßer, Ramona Kunze-Libnow to Sokurov’s passionate idiosyncratic style. (Tournées Festival) In German with English subtitles. NR, 102 min. OCT. 18-19-20 • FRANCE, 2017 Cindy lives in Berlin. Overweight and marginalized, she finds a job as a receptionist at the upcoming new international Schönefeld airport. Enders’s The Workshop tragi-comic film about coming of age suggests a parallel between the mega Dir. Laurent Cantet airport project at a standstill and Cindy’s life. The big wide multi-cultural world With Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi opens in front of her but will she make the most of it? (Critic.de) In French with English subtitles, NR, 113 min. SEPT. 13-14-15 • USA, 2006 Olivia, a successful Parisian novelist, has been hired to lead a summer writing workshop for unemployed youths in La Ciotat on the Mediterranean. Soul Searching: The Journey of Thomas Merton Acclaimed writer-director Laurent Cantet prompts reflection on the relation Dir. Morgan Atkinson between reality and fiction and the exploration of societal malaise with In English. NR, 60 min. young people: concerned students, party goofers, an emancipated young Muslim woman, recent immigrants, and a strikingly intelligent, confrontational With grace and candor, award-winning producer Morgan Atkinson captures young man with affiliations to extreme right-wing groups.The Workshop is the diverse aspects of Thomas Merton’s personality and life. A brilliant a breathtaking thriller that avoids formulaic answers to provide insight into a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, Merton continues situation that applies far beyond France. (Tournées Festival) to influence readers around the world. Soul“ Searching not only provides valuable insights into who Merton was and why he wrote as he did, but invites viewers to look deeply inside themselves as well, using Merton’s words and the OCT. 25-26-27 • CHINA, 2005 reflections of both scholars and those who knew him personally.” (Paul Wilkes, Mongolian Ping Pong “Merton: A Film Biography” PBS, 1985) Dir. Ning Hao. SEPT. 20 • FRANCE, 2016 World War I Centennial Special With Hurichabilike, Dawa, Geliban, Badema Frantz In Mongolian, with English subtitles. NR, 102 min. A ping pong ball, found floating in a stream, becomes the source of Dir. François Ozon wonderment for three young boys who live in the remote grasslands of With Paul Beer, Pierre Niney, Ernst Stötzner Mongolia, a magnificent landscape little changed since the time of Genghis In French and German with English subtitles. PG-13, 113 min. Khan. Bilike, the ball's discoverer, assumes it's a bird's egg. His grandmother Frantz was one of the thousands of young Germans killed in the war. This proclaims it a magic pearl. The boys take the ball to the monastery, but even post-WWI film deals with the haunting memories of the unspeakable, the the lamas don’t know…The mystery of the small white ball leads to questions issues of guilt and forgiveness. With this stirring adaptation of Ernst Lubistch’s about the world around them, and a journey of discovery about its origins The Gods Must be Crazy Tom Sawyer classic Broken Lullaby-inspired by the 1920’s play The Man I Killed by Maurice that recalls and ...“The kind of film that Rostand, François Ozon delivers a sumptuous period piece that asks whether should be seen by children, not just adventurous adults!" (The New York a lie can ever be healthier than the truth - bridging the bloody differences Times) between the two nations in 1919 to show how much they have in common, as well as the nagging strains of nationalism and xenophobia. But this lush NOV. 1-2-3 • USA, 2017 romance is above all a profoundly unusual and effective pacifist film, which The Shape of Water takes place entirely after the war, surveying the human damage both on the Sponsored by WKMS winning and the losing sides.(Tournées Festival) Dir. Guillermo del Toro SEPT. 21-22 • FRANCE, 2005 SATURDAY PANEL DISCUSSION WWI With Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon Joyeux Noël In English with ASL, Russian, French, R, 123 min Dir. Christian Carion At a top-secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. Master With Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Dany Boon. storyteller Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) created an otherworldly In English, French and German with English subtitles. PG-13, 116 min. fable, a love story, set against the backdrop of the Cold War era America circa The trench warfare of World War I was the bloodiest carnage, a hell unlike 1962. Yet the story is rich in themes that resonate with concerns of today e.g. any other war, before or after. The enemies were dug in and periodically attitudes towards the “Other”: prejudice, exclusion, racism, religious and power ordered to stand up, run forward and be shot to death. And they did it. (Roger politics. The monster may not be who you think it is … Del Toro realizes a “tour Ebert) On Christmas Eve of 1914, a remarkable real event took place in the de force” in empathy. (F&M-A Brussat, Spirituality and Practice) trenches where the Germans faced the British and the French. There was a spontaneous cease-fire, as soldiers on both sides laid down their weapons and peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood, even though they were aware that their superiors would not tolerate this. Carion’s film is a courageous, respectful and Follow us on: sobering tribute to the flickering of humanitarian spirit. (Time Out) the University calendar murraystate.edu/calendar Facebook facebook.com/cinemainternationalmsu

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