PRE-OPENING NIGHT FILM FESTIVAL
A successful French producer suddenly quits everything and runs to America in search of a new life. He later returns with a group of burlesque dancers to travel around France in search of France. See where it gets them in “On Tour.”
Two couples meet and fall in love with each other keeping it secret from everyone, especially their children. But feelings get complicated as they usually do in “Happy Few.”
Suzanne is married to a successful surgeon. They have two kids and live happily in the south of France. But soon she gets bored with her bourgeois lifestyle and decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist where she falls for a co-worker. As the attraction gets mutual, Suzanne needs to make a choice in “Leaving.”
A teenager decides to write an essay about homelessness for her French class. She meets homeless girl nicknamed No and after a few meetings Lou can’t imagine her life without her new unpredictable friend in “No and Me.”
A group of Trappist monks in Algeria must decide whether they should leave or stay after the fundamental terrorists kill several foreign workers, bringing panic to the neighborhood in “Of Gods and Men.”
A fearless gunman returns to his homeland Daisy Town with the president’s order to bring peace. He’ll fall in love and fight his enemies in western-style adventurous comedy “Lucky Luke.”
Films are shown in French with Ukrainian subtitles or simultaneous translation.
SERENDIPITY
Language: English with English subtitles
Comedy/Romance/Fantasy. USA (2001)
Directed by Peter Chelsom
Starring John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale and Jeremy Piven
Days before Christmas Jon and Sara meet in New York while buying presents for their partners. They like each other but one romantic night together is not enough to burn bridges with their loved ones.
So they decide to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brings them back together. Jon writes his phone number on a five dollar note and Sara – in an old book.
They break the note and give the book away. Many years later, unable to find each other after that night, they are both engaged to be married. Jon tries to track down the girl he couldn’t forget for years, and Sara flies from California to give destiny one last chance in reuniting them.
THE EXECUTIONER
Drama/Comedy. Spain (1963)
Directed by Luis Garcia Berlanga
Starring Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella
The coffin maker Jose Luis marries the executioner’s daughter and should inherit his father-in-law’s job, when he retires.
There’s got to be an executioner in the family for them to get an apartment they’ve been waiting for a long time. Jose Luis agrees to do the job, but as soon as he gets a bloody assignment, he immediately resigns.
But his family puts pressure on him so he ends up literally being dragged to “work.”
SHORTS ATTACK FESTIVAL
If you think that love is pain, welcome to the club. Festival “Love is a Catastrophe” presents a selection of short films from all over the world. In surreal and sometimes odd onscreen stories an alien comes to Earth and finds love, while a scuba diver falls for a fish.
A grandmother fights for her beloved car. Two people in love survive the end of the world. An Italian aristocrat loses her dear cat in the airport. A woman struggles with jealousy.
And someone gets lost in the fields. All shorts are shown in original languages with Ukrainian subtitles.
| MASTERCLASS CINEMA CLUB 34 Mazepy St., 594-1063. The Executioner: April 19 at 7 p.m.
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