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The Lady

mthiele — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:25:51 +0000

THE LADY is the extraordinary story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. It is also the epic tale of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma’s democracy movement. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a backdrop of political turmoil that continues today. THE LADY was written over a period of three years by Rebecca Frayn. Interviews with key figures in Aung San Suu Kyi’s entourage enabled her to reconstruct for the first time the true story of Burma’s national heroine. Directed by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Taken), THE LADY stars internationally acclaimed Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and David Thewlis (War Horse).

Delicacy

mthiele — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:25:18 +0000

Audrey Tautou (Amélie) is Nathalie, a beautiful, happy, and successful Parisian business executive who finds herself suddenly widowed after a three-year marriage to her soul mate. To cope with her loss, she buries herself and her emotions in her work to the dismay of her friends, family and co-workers. One day, inexplicably, her zest for life and love is rekindled by a most unlikely source, her seemingly unexceptional, gauche, and average looking office subordinate, Markus (comic star Francois Damiens, Heartbreaker). At first stunned by Nathalie’s unexpected attention, Markus comes to gradually believe in her feelings and shifts into romantic high gear. As their relationship goes from awkward to genuinely loving, Nathalie and Markus will have to overcome a host of obstacles including everyone else’s judgmental perceptions as well as their own self-doubts.

My Afternoons With Margueritte

mthiele — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:35:29 +0000

In a small French town, Germain (Gérard Depardieu), a nearly illiterate man in his 50s and considered to be the village idiot, takes a walk to the park one day and happens to sit beside Margueritte, a little old lady who is reading excerpts from her novel aloud. She’s articulate, highly intelligent and frail. Germain is lured by Margueritte’s passion for life and the magic of literature from which he has always felt excluded. As Margueritte broadens his mind via reading excerpts from her novel, Germain realizes that he is more of an intellectual than he has ever allowed himself to be. Afternoons spent reading aloud on their favorite bench transform their lives and start them both on a new journey—to literacy and respect for Germain, and to the deepest friendship for Margueritte.

Oranges and Sunshine

mthiele — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:28:19 +0000

Academy Award^® nominee Emily Watson (War Horse) stars as a woman whose quest would challenge the leaders of two nations and force them to confess to a secret as stunning as the truth it revealed. ORANGES AND SUNSHINE tells the unforgettable true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered one of the most controversial scandals of recent times: the organized deportation of innocent children from the UK to Australia, where they were thought to be lost in the system forever. Against overwhelming odds, and with little regard for her own safety, Humphreys reunited thousands of families and brought worldwide attention to a corrupt system and an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.