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Foreign Film Series
2007-2008 Season
All films shown in the Michigan Room
Big Rapids Community Library
Fridays, 7:00 PM
No Charge - Refreshments Provided - Donations Welcome
October 12 -- Syrian Bride (2004) Various languages w/subtitles. In a remote corner of the Golan Heights, a Druze woman just wants to marry a Syrian man on the other side of the border. 97 Min. PG (minor bad language)
November 2 -- Blue (1993) French/Romanian/Polish w/ subtitles. The first of Director Krysytof Kieslowski's trilogy (Red was shown last season). When Julie loses her husband she withdraws from life. Gradually she is drawn back to other people. 100 Min. R (brief sexuality)
January 18 -- Kinky Boots (2005) British. A factory trying to sell shoes that are hopelessly out of fashion needs a white knight, and gets one in the shape of a drag queen in need of Kinky Boots! 107 min. PG13 (sexuality, language)
January 31 - March 2 -- Festival of the Arts Film Series
February 8 -- Good Bye Lenin (2003) German w/ subtitles. When a loyal Communist Party member comes out of a long coma, her son comically struggles to keep her from discovering the awful truth that East Germany no longer exists. 121 Min. R (Brief language and sexuality)
March 7 -- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002) France/China w/ subtitles. During the Cultural Revolution, Luo and Ma are sent to remote mines for reeducation. Sumptuous scenes of remote China. 110 Min. No rating
April 25 -- Iron Island (2005) Persian w/ subtitles. A despotic, messianistic, benevolent leader oversees a community of squatters on an abandoned oil tanker in the Red Sea. 90 Min. Not rated (one lengthy scene of punishment)
May 9 -- Dirty Pretty Things (2002) English/Somali. In English. An illegal Nigerian immigrant doctor, working as a hotel porter, is caught up in the seamier side of London life. 97 Min. R (sexual content, disturbing images and language)
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