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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Fausta is ill with a disease contracted from her<br />
mother’s breast milk known as “the milk of<br />
sorrow.” However, this is not a sickness caused<br />
by bacteria or infection: it is a condition that<br />
only affects those women in Peru who were<br />
abused or raped during the years of terrorist<br />
struggle. Although this horrific period is now<br />
history, Fausta is nonetheless a living reminder<br />
of this time. Her sickness is called fear – and it<br />
has robbed her of her soul. But then, when her<br />
mother suddenly dies, Fausta is forced to face<br />
her fears. The overpowering nature of these fears<br />
and the desperate lengths to which Fausta will<br />
go to assuage them is revealed by her biggest<br />
secret: in order to bar loathsome intruders from<br />
In the summer of ’76, as President Jimmy Carter<br />
pledges to give government back to the people, tensions<br />
run high in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood<br />
where the Black Panthers once flourished. When Marcus<br />
(Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker) returns—having<br />
bolted years earlier—his homecoming isn’t exactly met<br />
with fanfare. His former movement brothers blame<br />
him for an unspeakable betrayal. Only his best friend’s<br />
widow, Patricia (Kerry Washington, Miracle at St. Ana),<br />
appreciates Marcus’s predicament, which both unites and<br />
paralyzes them. As Patricia’s daughter compels the two<br />
comrades to confront their past, history repeats itself in<br />
dangerous ways. Night Catches Us masterfully reckons<br />
with the complexity of its characters’ revolutionary<br />
ideologies and internal desires. Bell-bottoms, Afros,<br />
the MilK oF sorroW<br />
(la teta asustada)<br />
Peru’s entry into the Oscars for Best Foreign<br />
Language <strong>Film</strong> 20<strong>10</strong> and a Final Five Candidate.<br />
Golden Bear, Best <strong>Film</strong> Berlin International <strong>Film</strong> Festival,<br />
Best <strong>Film</strong> Montreal World Cinema, Best <strong>Film</strong><br />
Guadalajara <strong>Film</strong> Festival<br />
Thurs Nov 11 2:30 PM-4:<strong>10</strong> PM<br />
sAT Nov 13 12:<strong>10</strong> PM-1:50 PM<br />
entering her body she has inserted a potato into her vagina as<br />
a kind of antibacterial ‘defense shield’. However, her mother’s<br />
death unleashes unexpected events that change Fausta’s life<br />
dramatically, as well as the lives of others involved. Fausta now<br />
sets out on a journey – a journey that will lead her out of her<br />
fear and into freedom. The film addresses a dark era in Peru.<br />
Established in 2001, the Peruvian Commission for Truth and<br />
Reconciliation has registered almost 70,000 murder cases, as<br />
well as countless rapes, abductions and other human rights<br />
abuses in the period from 1980 to the year 2000.<br />
[dir. claudia llosa, 2009, peru, video, 94mins. in Spanish and Quechua<br />
with English subtitles]<br />
Website: www.olivefilms.com<br />
niGht catches us<br />
potlucks, and Caddies set the scene as the film potently interweaves<br />
political media with an evocative soul-inspired score, summoning a<br />
vivid sense of place and time. The golden light that bathes characters’<br />
faces seems to express the promise—and elusiveness—of the<br />
necessary change Marcus and Patricia struggle for so dearly—each by<br />
separate means. Winning widespread acclaim at its recent Sundance<br />
premiere, particularly for the outstanding performances from Mackie<br />
and Washington, director Tanya Hamilton’s period film brings to life the<br />
intelligence, depth and activism of this Philadelphia community with<br />
the meticulous care and respect that it deserves, fashioning a tale that<br />
is part love story, part political drama and part cultural critique.<br />
[dir. tanya Hamilton, 20<strong>10</strong>, uS, 35mm, 90 mins.]<br />
Website: www.nightcatchesus.com<br />
Sponsored by:<br />
WEd Nov <strong>10</strong> 5:40 PM-7:15 PM Happy Birthday Kimberly Flynn<br />
FrI Nov 12 <strong>10</strong>:00 AM-11:35 AM Tanger Outlet Center<br />
sAT Nov 13 12:35 PM-2:<strong>10</strong> PM<br />
suN Nov <strong>14</strong> 12:55 PM-2:30 PM Paul & Anne Kuhns<br />
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