"Faces of Eve"

March 20, Saturday, 1pm onwards

(Free Admission)

Madeo (Mother)  (South Korea, 2009)

Written and Directed by Bong Joon-ho

Running Time: 128 minutes, in Korean with English subtitles

Cast: Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin

Synopsis: Hye-ja is a ginseng vendor and an unlicensed acupuncturist in a small town in southern South Korea. She dotes on her son, Do-joon, who is 27, unemployed, and mentally incapacitated on some level, which Hye-ja seems to ignore.

A high school girl is found dead on the roof of an abandoned building, and the local detectives arrest Do-joon based on circumstantial evidence. They coerce him to sign a confession and quickly imprison him. Hye-ja, distraught and convinced he is innocent, searches for the real killer, uncovering many secrets from the townspeople.

Awards/Nominations: Competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival; Asia-Pacific Film Festival - Won Best Actress (Hye-ja Kim); Blue Dragon Awards 2009 Won Blue Dragon Award Best Film; Dubai International Film Festival  2009 Won Muhr AsiaAfrica Award Best Screenplay; Mar del Plata Film Festival 2009 Won SIGNIS Award (Joon-ho Bong), Nominated Best Film (Joon-ho Bong)

Breaking The Waves (Amor omnie)

(co-production: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland and Scotland, 1996)  

Directed by Lars von Trier

Written by Lars von Trier and Peter Asmussen

Running Time: 159 min. / 153 min. (director's cut)

Cast:  Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr and Udo Kier

Synopsis: Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil (Emily Watson in a career-defining performance) meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover.

Awards/Nominations: 1997     Nominated     Oscar     Best Actress in a Leading Role (Emily Watson); Amanda Awards, Norway 1996     Won     Amanda     Best Nordic Feature Film (Nordisk Amanda)Lars von Trier; Art Film Festival 1999     Won     IGRIC Award     Foreign Film;  Australian Film Institute 1997     Nominated     Best Foreign Film Award;    BAFTA Awards 1997     Nominated     BAFTA Film Award,  Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Emily Watson); Bodil Awards 1997     Won     Bodil     Best Actress (Bedste kvindelige hovedrolle) (Emily Watson), Best Film (Bedste danske film) Lars von Trier (director), Best Supporting Actress (Bedste kvindelige birolle)(Katrin Cartlidge); Camerimage 1996     Nominated     Golden Frog;    Cannes Film Festival 1996     Won     Grand Prize of the Jury     (Lars von Trier), Nominated     Golden Palm     (Lars von Trier); Chlotrudis Awards 1997     Nominated     Chlotrudis Award     Best Actress (Emily Watson); Czech Lions 1998     Won     Czech Lion     Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film) (Lars von Trier); César Awards, France1997     Won     César    Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger) (Lars von Trier); European Film Awards 1996     Won     European Film Award,  Best Actress(Emily Watson), Best Film, FIPRESCI Prize (Lars von Trier);  Evening Standard British Film Awards 1997     Won     Evening Standard British Film Award , Most Promising Newcomer(Emily Watson); Fotogramas de Plata 1997     Won     Fotogramas de Plata     Best Foreign Film (Mejor Película Extranjera)(Lars von Trier) Tied with Secrets & Lies (1996) ; Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival 1996     Won     President Award Best Actress(Emily Watson),Best Director (Lars von Trier); Golden Globes, USA 1997     Nominated     Golden Globe     Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (Emily Watson); Goya Awards 1997     Nominated     Goya     Best European Film (Mejor Película Europea) (Lars von Trier) Denmark/Sweden/France/Netherlands/Norway;  Guldbagge Awards 1997     Won     Guldbagge     Best Foreign Film (Bästa utländska film); Independent Spirit Awards 1997     Nominated     Independent Spirit Award     Best Foreign Film (Lars von Trier) Denmark;  London Critics Circle Film Awards 1997     Won     ALFS Award     British Newcomer of the Year (Emily Watson), Nominated     ALFS Award     British Actress of the Year (Emily Watson);  Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1996     Won     New Generation Award (Emily Watson); Lübeck Nordic Film Days 1996     Won     Baltic Film Prize for a Nordic Feature Film     (Lars von Trier), Prize of the Ecumenical Jury     (Lars von Trier); National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1997     Won     NSFC Award     Best Actress (Emily Watson), Best Cinematography, Best Director(Lars von Trier), Best Film; New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1996     Won     NYFCC Award     Best

Actress(Emily Watson), Best Cinematographer, Best Director (Lars von Trier); Robert Festival 1997     Won     Robert     Best Actress (Årets kvindelige hovedrolle) (Emily Watson), Best Cinematography (Årets fotografering), Best Editing (Årets klipning), Best Film (Årets danske spillefilm) Lars von Trier (director), Best Make-Up (Årets make-up), Best Production Design (Årets filmdekoration), Best Screenplay (Årets manuskript) Best Sound (Årets lyd), Best Supporting Actress (Årets kvindelige birolle) Katrin Cartlidge; Satellite Awards 1997     Won     Golden Satellite Award     Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language Lars von Trier (director) Denmark, Nominated     Golden Satellite Award     Best Director of a Motion Picture (Lars von Trier), Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (Emily Watson), Outstanding Cinematography;  Stockholm Film Festival 1996     Won     FIPRESCI Prize     Northern Lights Section (Lars von Trier);  Uruguay International Film Festival 1997     Won     Best Film     (Lars von Trier);  Vancouver International Film Festival 1996     Won     Most Popular Film     (Lars von Trier)

La flor de mi secreto (The Flower of My Secret) (Spain, 1995)

Written and Directed by  Pedro Almodóvar

Running Time: 102 minutes, in Spanish with English Subtitles

Cast:  Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carme Elías, Rossy de Palma and Chus Lampreave

Synopsis: Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. She is unhappy with her professional life and with her husband, a soldier working in Brussels and Bosnia that is never at home. She will try anything to change her life

References forward to other Almodóvar films:  In The Flower of my Secret, the plot of Leo's new, gritty, novel is stolen and used as the basis of a film screenplay The Freezer. In a coup of life imitating art, a decade later it formed the basis of Almodóvar's own 2006 film Volver. Another scene from The Flower of my Secret, the student doctors being taught how to persuade a grieving mother to allow her son's organs to be used in transplant, was used as the starting point of Almodóvar's 1999 film All About My Mother.

Awards/Nominations: Fotogramas de Plata 1996 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Movie Actress (Mejor Actriz de Cine) (Marisa Paredes);  Goya Awards 1996 Nominated Goya Best Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal) (Marisa Paredes), Best Director (Mejor Director) (Pedro Almodóvar), Best Make-Up and Hairstyles (Mejor Maquillaje y/o Peluquería), Best Production Design (Mejor Dirección Artística), Best Sound (Mejor Sonido), Best Supporting Actress (Mejor Actriz de RepartoChus Lampreave, Best Supporting Actress (Mejor Actriz de Reparto) (Rossy de Palma); Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1996 Won Best Actress (Marisa Paredes), Nominated Crystal Globe (Pedro Almodóvar); Premios ACE 1997 Won Premio ACE Cinema - Best Actress (Marisa Paredes); Sant Jordi Awards 1996 Won Sant Jordi Best Spanish Actress (Mejor Actriz Española) (Marisa Paredes); Spanish Actors Union 1996 Nominated Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Lead Performance (Protagonista Cine) (Marisa Paredes), Film: Supporting Performance (Secundario Cine) Chus Lampreave and Rossy de Palma

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DETAILED DIRECTIONS:

E.Rodriguez Avenue Route:
(from España, Manila)

>E.Rodriguez - Right to New York St. - Right to Lantana St. - Left to Rosario Drive - Right to Acacia st. (see map below)
Landmarks: Immaculate Conception Church (Lantana), Boston Gallery (going to Rosario Drive)

Aurora Boulevard Route:
(from Cubao to Manila-Legarda side)

>Aurora Blvd./Cubao - Betty Go Belmonte St. (Valley Road) - Rosario Drive - Acacia St.
Landmarks: X'tian Academy School, Caltex & Landbank (Betty Go), Teresa of Avila Bldg. (corner Rosario & Acacia)

*Take Stop & Shop, Divisoria jeepney
Note: Tricycle stations are found both in Lantana and Betty Go Belmonte Sts.

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