Scannáin - Film
BALLINA ARTS CENTRE
Barrett St, Ballina, Co. Mayo.
T: 096 73593
Midnight in Paris
(Dir: Woody Allen, USA/France, 2011)
Tuesday 1st May, 8pm
Two young Americans – screenwriter Gil (Owen Wilson) and Inez (Rachel McAdams) – who have been together since their schooldays and are to be married in the fall, head for a few days to Paris where Gil’s fiancée’s father has a business meeting. While Inez and her mother are overjoyed by a chance meeting with another couple, and together they discover the tourist gems of the city and its luxury stores, Gil soaks up the mysterious magic of places where his most admired authors once experienced “a movable feast.” He feels that inParishe will find the inspiration that will help him exchange his success as aHollywoodscreenwriter for the courage to be a novelist. But his road to discovery comes with an unexpected twist, and at the journey’s end Gil discovers what he truly wants from life.
In his new romantic comedy, the American filmmaker expresses his love for a city that he considers, afterNew York, the most beautiful in the world. Adm: €5
The Skin I Live In
(Dir: Pedro Almodovar,Spain, 2011)
Tuesday 15th May, 8pm
Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig. Scruples were never a problem.Marilia(Marisa Paredes), the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig...
Adm: €5
LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE
Linenhall St, Castlebar, Mayo.
T: 094 9023733
E: linenhall@anu.ie
W: www.thelinenhall.com
Tuesday 1st May @ 8.00pm
Pina
Germany 2011 103 mins Language: English & German with English subtitles
Internationally renowned German contemporary dance pioneer Pina Bausch died in 2009. Acclaimed director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club,ParisTexas, Wings of Desire) was beginning to make a documentary about her at the time, and continued his project by interviewing the dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal, the company she ran for 36 years, interspersing these between excerpts from several of Bausch’s key dance works. The result is elegiac, celebratory, and a visual treat.
Adm. €5
Tuesday 15th May @ 8.00pm
Little White Lies (Les Petits Mouchoirs)
France 2010 154mins Language: French with English subtitles
Director Guillaume Canet assembles an outstanding cast of some ofFrance’s finest actors - lead by Academy Award-winning Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) and including Jean Dujardin (star of The Artist) - for this entertaining and acutely observed drama of manners. A gathering of close friends is hosted every year by a couple at their beautiful beach house as they all leave their city stresses behind. But this year is different. One of the friends has been badly injured in a motorcycle accident just before they leaveParis. After being assured that there is nothing they can do, they decide to embark on their annual trip, but tensions are simmering just under the surface, waiting to erupt... Think The Big Chill à la plage and you’ll get something of the flavour of this immersing and entertaining ensemble piece.
Adm. €5
Tuesday 29th May @ 8.00pm
Potiche
France 2010 103mins Language: French with English subtitles
Set in a provincial town inNorthern Francein 1977, Suzanne is the homemaker and submissive, housebound wife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol, who oversees his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is equally tyrannical with his children and “trophy wife”. When the workers go on strike and take Robert hostage, Suzanne steps in to manage the factory. To everyone’s surprise, she proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when Robert returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated... A pure delight of a French comedy starring Catherine Deneuve with Fabrice Luchini and Gerard Depardieu.
Adm. €5