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LOURDES
SHOW DATE: March 21, 2010
SPEAKER(S): Psychologist/Professor Dr. Larry Raifman
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Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues its 47th series on March 21st, with the Baltimore Premier of Lourdes. Written and Directed by Jessica Hausner. Starring Sylvie Testud, Lea Seydoux, Gilette Barbier, Gerhard Liebmann.
2010 Non Rated. In French with English subtitles. Running time 96 minutes.
Synopsis
Sylvie Testud, star of LOURDES, may be the greatest French actress of her generation. Like Isabelle Huppert, she effortlessly slips into whatever role she assumes. Unlike Catherine Deneuve, she does not dazzle us with glamorous perfection, but radiates a charisma that is born of flaws that are all too real. As Christine, she is a young woman confined to a wheelchair, visiting the city of Lourdes in hope of a miraculous recovery – along with thousands of others. Yet the movie’s real subject is not religious belief, but human frailty. LOURDES asks us to consider how we would live life severely disabled. And if the hoped-for miracle befell someone else? If romance and the chance for happiness fell from the sky? The film lets no one off the hook: not Christine, nor her fellow pilgrims, the religious order that runs the show, or the pretty nurses who fancy themselves angels of mercy. --© Palisades Tartan
LOURDES
SHOW DATE: March 21, 2010
SPEAKER(S):
Here's some information about the film:
Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues its 47th series on March 21st, with the Baltimore Premier of Lourdes. Written and Directed by Jessica Hausner. Starring Sylvie Testud, Lea Seydoux, Gilette Barbier, Gerhard Liebmann.
2010 Non Rated. In French with English subtitles. Running time 96 minutes.
Synopsis
Sylvie Testud, star of LOURDES, may be the greatest French actress of her generation. Like Isabelle Huppert, she effortlessly slips into whatever role she assumes. Unlike Catherine Deneuve, she does not dazzle us with glamorous perfection, but radiates a charisma that is born of flaws that are all too real. As Christine, she is a young woman confined to a wheelchair, visiting the city of Lourdes in hope of a miraculous recovery – along with thousands of others. Yet the movie’s real subject is not religious belief, but human frailty. LOURDES asks us to consider how we would live life severely disabled. And if the hoped-for miracle befell someone else? If romance and the chance for happiness fell from the sky? The film lets no one off the hook: not Christine, nor her fellow pilgrims, the religious order that runs the show, or the pretty nurses who fancy themselves angels of mercy. --© Palisades Tartan
LOURDES
SHOW DATE: March 21, 2010
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In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains
The Girl on the Train
SHOW DATE: March 14, 2010
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A drama centered on a young woman who claims she was the target of an anti-Semetic attack and the subsequent media sensation it creates.
AJAMI
SHOW DATE: Sunday, March 7
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Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
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