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APR 28 (3:15 matinee, 7:00 & 9:00) MATINEE Sun 1 PM APR 29 & 30 (7:00 & 9:00) JACK THE GIANT SLAYER QUARTET ACADEMY AWARD Director: Dustin Hoffmann, UK, 2012, 99 min; PG NOMINEE! Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred (, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly) are in a home for retired opera singers. Every BEST FOREIGN year, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday and they take part. Jean (Maggie Smith), who used to be married to MAY 2, 3, 4 (7:00 & 9:35) LANGUAGE FILM Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She MAY 1 (7:00 & 9:20) still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on! “This is a lovely film directed with delicacy and taste, profoundly alive to the rhythms of its characters, which gives its superlative British cast of stage and screen legends the time CABARET and space they deserve.” –Salon.com Bob Fosse USA, 1972, 124 min. Cabaret takes you inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Director: shares the Danish throne with King Christian VII. In adviser, too. And then he becomes the king’s wife’s Berlin, where starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles (Liza , 2012, Danish with subtitles; this sumptuous 18th-century drama, she arrives in lover, sneaking into her bedroom. Suddenly, she “A SUBTLE, SURE-FOOTED Minnelli) and an impish emcee () sound 138 min; 14A full of bright-eyed optimism, only to feels alive again, and important. He, likewise, falls in the call to decadent fun, while outside in the streets see that her new husband is, um, a twit. love…Beautifully staged and shot, A Royal Affair is a certain political party grows into a brutal force. Caught between the Age of Enlightenment and historical drama of the highest order. –Philadelphia DELIGHT.” Washington Post Director-choreographer Bob Fosse shaped a triumph a cloistered world of entitlement, between duty Then Johann Struensee (the charming, slightly sin- Inquirer of style and substance. Come to the Cabaret, old and illicit love, Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander) ister Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt) is hired on as chum! is the young queen, imported from England, who the king’s doctor. He becomes the king’s personal Benefit For MAY 5 “INTELLIGENT, MAY 10 (7:00 & 9:00) MAY 11 (7:10 & 9:00) HerWay Home. (7:00 only) LA TOURNÉE DU CINÉMA QUÉBÉCOIS Cinecenta passes/tickets not valid. BEASTS OF THE All seats: $5 or by donation Join present-day COMPASSIONATE.” for students/low income. Cinecenta passes/tickets not midwives in a lively MAY 8 (7:00) MAY 9 (7:00) valid. SOUTHERN WILD discussion about Variety Special Event! Special Event! maternity care in SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Join producer Isabelle Couture Join art director Colombe Raby Victoria following this Director: Malik Bendjelloul documentary film. for a discussion after the film! for a discussion after the film! Benh Zeitlin, USA, 2012, Sweden/UK, 2012, 87 minutes; PG 94 minutes; PG Music fans love this indie documentary. Some say Mexican-American singer-songwriter Sixto BIRTH STORY: Ina MAY 6 & 7 (7:10 & 9:00) Rodriguez could have been as big as Dylan, ALPHEE DES ETOILES LAWRENCE ANYWAYS yet his first album bombed on release in 1970s Hugo Latulippe, 2012, 82 min; French Xavier Dolan, 2012, 168 min; French with America. But unbeknown to the near-penniless May Gaskin and the with subtitles subtitles In a defiant bayou community, a six-year-old girl Detroit artist he was a sensation in South Africa. OF TWO MINDS This is the quest of two South Africans to find their Alphée has a rare genetic disorder that hampers A mesmerizing love story of epic proportions and (Quvenzhané Wallis, the youngest Best Actress nomi- Directors: Doug Blush & Lisa Klein USA, 2012, 85 minutes nee in Oscar history) exists on the brink of orphan- hero, following clues in song lyrics. The journey’s a her development. Yet she continues to defy medical extraordinary circumstances. Laurence Alia (Melvil blast — and the story isn’t over yet. Farm Collective The great thing about this documentary on bipolar disorder is that it doesn’t dwell on the clinical or pharma- expectations. In a moving declaration of love for his Poupaud) is a 35-year-old college professor, who is hood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraor- ceutical. We hear from the experts, and we learn about medications. But this is a film about people, brave daughter, filmmaker Hugo Latulippe and his family happily in love with his partner (Suzanne Clement). That dinary imagination, she believes that the natural world USA, 2012, 95 min. souls willing to reveal personal stories of the torment raging inside their brains. Writer-directors Doug Blush steal away for a year, focusing on his daughter’s learn- bond is severely tested when Laurence announces that is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm oscar winner: and Lisa Klein took great pains and untold hours documenting a wide range of folks who share their histories ing, so that she can integrate into a regular classroom he can no longer go on living as a man when he knows, changes her reality. Desperate to save her ailing Please go to cinecenta.com for more father, this tiny hero learns to survive catastrophes and emotions through interviews, videos, artwork and journals. --Cleveland Plain Dealer when they get home. in his soul, that he was meant to be a woman. –Exclaim best documentary feature! information of epic proportions. “STARTLINGLY FRESH AND POWERFUL!” –The New Yorker MAY 17 & 18 (7:10 & 9:15) “A taut and noirish LOVE, MARILYN thriller that keeps Director: Liz Garbus USA, 2012, you guessing” 105 min Watching Liz Garbus’ magical documentary I realized not just how much we don’t know Whistler Film about Marilyn Monroe. Garbus is working from a treasure trove of new material: boxes Festival of the star’s highly confessional and introspec- tive letters and diaries, which were found only MAY 14 (7:00 & 9:15) recently. Actresses like , MAY 15 & 16 (7:00 & 9:25) Davis, and a fantastic read “subtle, hair-raising!” the excerpts, and listening to Monroe’s own MAY 12 & 13 (7:10 & 9:00) words, we hear her voice and glimpse her CITIZEN KANE soul as never before. We also watch her in NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS the globe & mail never-before-seen interviews, photographs, , USA, 1941, 119 min. Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho and home movies. Love, Marilyn deepens the argument that the ditzy ‘’Marilyn’’ was BLOOD PRESSURE Orson Welles’ masterwork (American Film Institute’s Brazil, 2012, 131 min; Portuguese with subtitles every inch a performance, and a brilliant one. Director: Sean Garrity Canada, 2012, 95 minutes #1) remains grand entertainment, directed with inspired This supremely poised first feature from Brazil is steeped equally in dread and humor. We’re in a well-off beachfront –Entertainment Weekly visual flair. Chronicling the stormy life of an influential neighborhood of Recife where the residents are ensconced in bourgeois comfort but also trapped behind barred This clever Canadian thriller begins in voiceover: “Dear Nicole …” A 40-year-old housewife/pharmacist publishing tycoon, this “Best Original Screenplay” has just received a typewritten letter from — well, I guess secret admirer fits the bill. It’s friendly but vague, and windows and security systems. The Altmanesque tapestry includes members of a rich family and of the working Oscar winner is rooted in themes of power, corruption, class that variously serves, protects, and threatens them. Filho uses fluid camerawork and an intricate sound design asks if she wants to “take the next step.” Michelle Giroux plays Nicole, and it’s her reaction that sells the story. vanity - the American Dream lost in the mystery of a Her character has an inattentive husband and two almost-grown kids. She’s just bored enough to be curious. to sensational effect: the horror is nameless and pervasive, both embedded in the everyday and an emanation of dying man’s last word: “Rosebud.” the collective unconscious. She takes the next step and, when that proves small and harmless, another. And another…. –National Post –Artforum A film about changing the world. This follow-up Rob Stewart’s acclaimed MAY 24 & 25 Sharkwater continues his remarkable journey. In an effort to uncover the MAY 22 & 23 (7:00 & 9:00) truth and find the secret to saving the ecosystems we depend on for survival, Stewart embarks on a life-threatening adventure. From the coral reefs in Papua (7:00 & 9:10) New Guinea and deforestation in Madagascar to the largest and most destructive environmental project in history in Alberta, THE GATEKEEPERS Canada, he reveals that all of our actions are intercon- Director: Dror Moreh nected and that they are reducing the Earth’s ability to RENOIR house humans. How did this happen, and what will Israel, 2012, 102 min; English & Director: Gilles Bourdos it take to change the course that humanity has set Hebrew with subtitles; PG France, 2012, 111 min; itself on? Stewart finds encouragement and hope, MAY 19, 20, 21 (7:10 & 9:00) This film is a feat — of access and of passion- French with subtitles pointing to the revolutions of the past and how ate and unsettling political commentary. I don’t we’ve evolved and changed our course in times know how Moreh persuaded six former heads In 1915, the 15-year-old Andrée Heuschling took a position in the of necessity. Startling, beautiful, and provocative, of Israel’s Shin Bet secret-service agency to talk 74-year-old painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s gorgeously situated REVOLUTION Revolution inspires audiences from across the to him; these are tough men who have never home on the Côte d’Azur. The beautiful young woman (Christa Director: Rob Stewart globe to start a revolution and change the world spoken about their work before. But talk they do Theret) inspired a renewed vigour in the aging master (Michel forever. –therevolutionmovie.com Bouquet) and assumed the role of Renoir’s final model/muse. Enter Canada, 2012, 85 minutes about terrorism, torture, war, compromise, the relationships between Israelis and Palestinians, and, most depress- ingly, about the relationships among Israelis in a country being torn apart as much by citizens within as by enemies Renoir’s 21-year-old son Jean (Vincent Rottiers)—future genius of without. What they have to say is unnerving, surprising, and vital. —Entertainment Weekly cinema—who, having been wounded in WWI, comes home to convalesce. He falls in love…The delights here are many: luscious cinematography gives the sun-dappled setting the luminosity one WINNER! AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD “PROVOCATIVE, REVELATORY AND ASTONISHING!” only finds in the south of France; and the acting is superlative. — Vancouver International Film Festival Victoria Film Festival Reporter

MAY 26 (7:00 & 9:10) MAY 27, 28, 29 (7:15 & 9:00) MAY 30 & 31, JUNE 1 (7:00 & 9:20) RENOIR Velcrow Ripper’s NO Director: Pablo Larrain Director: Gilles Bourdos Chile, 2012, 118 min; Spanish with subtitles; PG France, 2012, 111 min; French with subtitles OCCUPY LOVE Winner of the Directors’ Fortnight top prize in Cannes, No stars Gael Garcia Bernal (Motorcycle Diaries) as the brilliant young Chilean man who helped topple the dictator Pinochet. Part of Team Director: Velcrow Ripper No’s genius was to use humor in its ads, a quite bold move if you consider the seriousness behind PLEASE SEE MAY 24 & Canada, 2012, 84 min; with Naomi the opposition to Pinochet. It is 1988 and the military junta announced it would hold a plebiscite to Klein, Bill McKibben, Jeremy Rifkin, get the people’s permission to stay in power. Enter Rene Saavedra (Bernal), an ad man who, after a 25 FOR DESCRIPTION career pushing soft drinks and soap, sets out to sell Chileans on democracy and freedom. Shot on bell hooks, Charles Eisenstein video tape to give the film the look of the 80s, Larrain has created a smart, funny and totally engross- ing political thriller with a powerful resonance for our times. –Victoria Film Festival

Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper (Scared Sacred, Fierce Light) on a journey deep inside the revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet, as he asks the question, “How could the crisis we are facing become a love story?” Occupy Love explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The old paradigm that concentrates wealth, founded on the greed of the few, is causing economic and ecological collapse. ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE: BEST FOREIGN FILM! The resulting crisis has become the catalyst for a profound awakening….The film features captivating insider scenes from the Egyptian Revolution, the Indignado uprising in Spain, Occupy Wall Street in New York, Indigenous activists at the Alberta Tar Sands, the climate justice movement, and beyond. Occupy Love is a moving, transforma- tive, heartfelt film. It will leave audiences inspired. –occupylove.org

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Annual BFA Exhibition Over 40 Visual Arts students showcase their own art • April 19-27, Visual Arts building Annual MFA Exhibition Future gallery headliners offer groundbreaking new work in this exhibit by graduating Master of Fine Arts Visual Arts students • May 4-11, Visual Arts building Faculty Exhibition: Now Art A rare opportunity to see dynamic contemporary art by seven of UVic’s acclaimed Annual BFA Exhibition Visual Arts faculty: Vikky Alexander, Lynda Gammon, Daniel Laskarin, Sandra Meigs, More than 40 undergraduate Visual Arts Jennifer Stillwell, Paul Walde and Robert Youds • June 1-8, Visual Arts building students present an exhibit of own art • April 19 to 27 in the Visual Arts building

Annual MFA Exhibition Graduating Visual Arts MFA students present an exhibit of their work • May 4 to 11 in the Visual Arts building

Faculty Exhibition: Now Art Don’t miss this rare chance to see dynamic contemporary art by seven of