nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
nov 10-14 2010 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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In British writer-director Peter Strickland’s haunting<br />
and spare feature debut, newcomer Hilda Péter plays<br />
Katalin Varga, a woman who enjoys a quiet life in rural<br />
Transylvania with her husband Zsigmond and young son<br />
Orbán. But when Zsigmond discovers that Orbán is not<br />
his child—a truth Katalin had hoped to keep secret—he<br />
banishes Katalin and the boy, prompting her to embark<br />
on a dangerous journey to find Orbán’s long-lost birth<br />
father. Winner of the European Discovery prize at the<br />
2009 European <strong>Film</strong> Awards, Katalin Varga toys with<br />
expectations from the beginning. Equal parts road movie,<br />
character drama, and revenge thriller, Strickland’s film<br />
Based primarily on the first two volumes of illustrator<br />
Philippe Francq’s and writer Jean Van Hamme’s 16-part<br />
series – which in turn was based on Van Hamme’s serial<br />
<strong>nov</strong>els from the ‘70s -- the film depicts the unlikely<br />
origins of orphan Largo Winch, sole heir of billionaire<br />
mogul Nerio Winch, whose mysterious Winch Intl. Group<br />
is one of the world’s most powerful conglomerates. The<br />
narrative flashes back and forth between episodes of<br />
the young Largo’s troubled childhood, when he was<br />
plucked from a Croatian orphanage by rising business<br />
star Nerio, and present-day sequences in which,<br />
following Nerio’s murder, Largo battles the onslaught of<br />
drug traffickers, assassins, militia fighters and doubledealing<br />
corporate-political traders to protect his fortune<br />
Katalin VarGa<br />
BeRLIN INTeRNATIONAL FILM FeSTIVAL, SILVeR BeAR<br />
BeST FILM, eVeNING STANDARD BRITISh FILM AWARDS<br />
BeST FILM, euROPeAN FILM AWARDS BeST FILM<br />
Thurs Nov 11 9:05 PM-<strong>10</strong>:30 PM<br />
FrI Nov 12 9:15 PM-<strong>10</strong>:40 PM<br />
sAT Nov 13 9:<strong>10</strong> PM-<strong>10</strong>:35 PM<br />
is ultimately a rumination on the nature of forgiveness and justice, one<br />
in which our sympathies shift over the course of this folkloric narrative.<br />
Powered by an atmospheric, minimalist score and featuring Márk<br />
Györi’s gorgeous photography of the desolate Romanian countryside,<br />
Katalin Varga tells a story both unique and timeless—and, like Péter’s<br />
galvanizing performance, not easily forgotten.<br />
[dir. peter Strickland, 2009, Romania/uK, 35mm, 82 mins. in Romanian<br />
and Hungarian with English subtitles]<br />
Website: www.memento-films.com/katalin/<br />
larGo Winch<br />
Thurs Nov 11 12:25 PM-2:20 PM<br />
FrI Nov 12 2:40 PM-4:35 PM<br />
suN Nov <strong>14</strong> 2:45 PM-4:40 PM<br />
from a corrupt board of directors, headed by the nefarious Ann Ferguson<br />
(Kristin Scott Thomas). As envisioned by director Jerome Salle, this<br />
is slick and stylish action-adventure stuff, hyper stylized on the same<br />
international scale as the Bond films but with the rough edges buffed<br />
off. While the action is fast and furious the story is one that holds firm<br />
to an independent sensibility. A little offbeat humor helps to make the<br />
film complete.<br />
[dir. Jerome Salle, 2009, France/belgium, 35mm, <strong>10</strong>9 mins. in French,<br />
English and croatian with English subtitles]<br />
Website: www.musicboxfilms.com/largo-winch<br />
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