V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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Drifting Flowers is an alluring Taiwanese love story skillfully<br />
woven together in three parts. Each set in a different time<br />
period, the story’s heroines unabashedly seek their true<br />
identities in balance with the worlds in which they live. In<br />
the first scenario, 8-year-old Meigo is literally the eyes for<br />
her blind sister Jing, a responsibility she loves. Every night<br />
after school she carefully walks her big sister to a singing<br />
gig at a local bar. One night, a new accordion player named<br />
Diego joins the backup band. Both Meigo and Jing soon fall<br />
for this suave butch dyke, and the bittersweet love causes<br />
friction for all. The second scenario is a beautiful story of loss<br />
and rekindled friendship. Lily quietly struggles alone with<br />
Alzheimer’s, longing for the day when her missing girlfriend,<br />
A delightfully, whimsical tale about the eventful postretirement<br />
life of a schoolteacher, his patiently understanding<br />
wife, and the many enterprises he undertakes to keep<br />
busy. Josef (memorably played by zdenek Sverák,) is an<br />
exasperated school teacher, who one day decides that he’s<br />
had enough with the unruly students. A fun-loving energetic<br />
man, he quickly discovers that the quiet, relaxed life of<br />
retirement neither suits him nor his linguist wife Eliška, so<br />
Josef re-enters the workforce, first as a bike messenger<br />
(not a good idea for a 65-year-old), then at a supermarket<br />
handling bottle returns. There, Josef mischievously meddles<br />
into the private and romantic lives or customers, co-workers<br />
and even his daughter, whose marriage is falling apart.<br />
With computerization threatening that job, and facing his<br />
drIftIng flowers<br />
(pIao lang QIng chun)<br />
THuRS NOV 6 6:30 PM-8:15 PM<br />
FRI NOV 7 12:45 PM-2:30 PM<br />
SAT NOV 8 5:00 PM-6:45 PM<br />
Ocean, will walk through the door. Instead, her long-lost,<br />
cross-dressing, pseudo-husband -- reminiscent of her lover<br />
-- shows up on Lily’s doorstep. Their fragmented friendship<br />
grows beautifully into an inseparable bond that tugs at the<br />
heart. Coming full circle, the third segment features Diego<br />
during her teen years, fighting her traditional family, binding<br />
her breasts and falling in love for the first time. Brilliant<br />
director zero Chou (Spider Lilies) deftly merges these<br />
bittersweet personal journeys as they navigate finding their<br />
place in the ebbs and flows of life.<br />
[Dir. zero chou, 2007, Taiwan, 35mm, 97 mins. in Taiwanese<br />
with English subtitles]<br />
emptIes<br />
(vratne lahve)<br />
Karlovy Vary Audience Award Best <strong>Film</strong><br />
Czech Lion (Czech Oscars) for Audience Award Best <strong>Film</strong><br />
THuRS NOV 6 12:20 PM-2:10 PM<br />
FRI NOV 7 7:20 PM-9:10 PM<br />
SPONSORED BY: COMCAST SPOTLIGHT<br />
SAT NOV 8 12:05 PM-1:55 PM<br />
SPONSORED BY: BETTY & GARY GRuNDER<br />
40th wedding anniversary, the usually self-centered man<br />
must deal with his past actions in a kind of late-middle-age<br />
enlightenment. Needing special attention is his strained<br />
relationship with his wife, hurt, and angry over years of<br />
indiscretions and non-communication. Can the two work out<br />
their differences as they face a new chapter in their lives?<br />
Empties is a tender, bittersweet dramedy from the Oscarwinning<br />
(Kolya) Sverák team.<br />
[Dir. Jan Sverak, 2007, czech Republic, 35mm, 103 mins. in<br />
czech and German with English subtitles]<br />
Website: www.vratnelahve.cz<br />
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