Films Finalized for Reel Rave

The Intouchables (2011) | Belgium

Rated: PG (Course Language & Drug Use) Incendies (2010) | Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Oliver Nakache, Eric Toledano

Based on a true story of friendship. After a paragliding accident leaves a rich aristocrat (François Cluzet) quadriplegic, he hires a young man (Omar Sy) from the projects to be his caregiver.

The film was nominated for a total of nine 2012 César Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars, including Best Picture, and winning Best Actor for breakout star Omar Sy, and won the Grand Prize at the 2011 Tokyo International Film Festival.

Beast of the Southern Wild (2012) | Russia Beginners (2010) | U.S.A.

Rated: PG (Course Language)
Duration: 93 min.
Genre: Fantasy / Drama
Director: Benh Zeitlin

Hushpuppy, a fearless six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in “the Bathtub”, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink's tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he's no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack, temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink's health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

Headhunters (2011) | Norway
Hodejegerne (original title)The First Grader (2010) | U.K.

Rated: 18A (Sexually Suggestive Scenes)
Duration: 100 min.
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Director: Morton Tyldum

Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is an accomplished headhunter, but also lives a double-life as an art thief to pay for his lifestyle. The fact that he is only 1.68m (5'6″) tall gives him a Napoleon complex, and thus the need to impress his tall beautiful wife with lavish gifts, who would in fact prefer a child. Through his wife Diana (Synnøve Macody Lund) who opens a new art gallery in Oslo, he is introduced to the former mercenary Clas Greve (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Greve is the perfect candidate to Rogers new recruiting assignment, with his background as a former elite soldier and senior management in the electronics industry. Brown learns that Greve is in possession of a valuable painting by Rubens and sets out to steal it along with his sleazy aide, Ove, who is in love with a Russian prostitute. Roger now sees the chance to get rid of all his financial problems for good. But it turns out that ruthless Greve is also hiding something. When Roger breaks into Greve's apartment, what he discovers turns his whole life upside down…

Take this Waltz (2011) | Canada West is West (2010) | U.K.

Rated: 14A (Sexually Suggestive Scenes, Nudity)
Duration: 116 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Sarah Polley

Margot (Michelle Williams), 28, is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their mutual attraction is obvious and immediate. To make matters worse, Daniel lives right across the street. The two begin spending time together and try to restrain themselves from doing things they might regret, but the sweltering Toronto summer has a way of making certain desires more urgent.

After stunning the film world with her Oscar-nominated writing/directing debut Away From Her, Sarah Polley has made her return behind the camera with Take This Waltz.

Cosmopolis (2012) | FranceThe Tree of Life (2011) | U.S.A.

Rated: 14A (Sexually Suggestive Scenes, Nudity, Violence)
Duration: 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: David Cronenberg

Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a hedge fund trader, jumps into a white limousine in New York City in order to get a haircut from his barber, whose shop is at the other end of the city. Unfortunately, a visit from the President of the United States throw Manhattan traffic into almost a complete stop. While Eric is trapped in the car, chaos sets in and he's helpless as he realizes his fortune is evaporating. He's also certain that someone is trying to assassinate him, but he doesn't know where or when.

Cosmopolis premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2012.

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) | U.S.A. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) | Poland

Rated: G (Course Language)
Duration: 124 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: John Madden

A group of British retirees are enticed by advertisements to travel to India to stay at the Marigold Hotel, which has been restored as a retirement home by a young Indian man (Dev Patel) with the best of intentions.

However, when they arrive, they find the living accommodations aren't quite as luxurious as portrayed in the brochure. Despite having to cope with broken furniture, phones that don't work and food they can't pronounce, they share a number of unconventional but hilarious experiences that bring them closer together.

Based on the novel “These Foolish Things” by Deborah Moggach.

by Mann Art Gallery

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