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News from the Rehoboth Beach Film Society
Rehoboth’s Art House Theater Celebrates
the Arrival of Spring
The need to stay dry from spring rains
makes a great excuse for going to the movies. However, the wonderful
upcoming films at the Art House Theater are justification for any film
enthusiast to go to the movies regardless of weather conditions.
Persepolis (Mar 7–20)
Persepolis is the poignant story of a young
girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of
precocious and outspoken nine-year old Marjane that we see a people’s
hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power, forcing the veil on women and
imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the “social
guardians” and discovers punk. Yet when her uncle is senselessly
executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war, the daily
fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable.
As she gets older, Marjane’s boldness
causes her parents to worry over her continued safety. At age fourteen,
they send her to school in Austria. Vulnerable and alone in a strange
land, she endures the typical ordeals of a teenager. Over time, she gains
acceptance, and even experiences love but after high school she finds
herself alone and horribly homesick.
Marjane decides to return to the tyrannical
society of Iran to be close to her family. The difficult adjustment and
the ongoing hypocrisy she witnesses cause Marjane to make a heartbreaking
decision about her future. Persepolis was nominated for an Oscar® for
Best Animated Feature Film. [2007, Runtime: 95 minutes, Rated: PG-13]
The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (Mar
21–Apr 3)
From one of the most emotionally
exhilarating and luminous bestsellers ever written comes the true story of
a man who took an adversity beyond all imagining and transformed it into a
testament to the irrepressible human urge to love, create and dream. Shot
entirely on location in France, director and artist Julian Schnabel (Basquiat,
Before Night Falls) forges a visually stunning, heart-stirring ode to what
drives a man to go on when all truly seems lost.
The Diving Bell and the Butterly tells the
story of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), AKA “Jean-Do,” the
high-flying editor of French Elle and father of two, who was renowned for
his sense of humor, style, and amorous energy, when, in an instant, his
world was plunged into the depths of catastrophe.
Faced with a harrowing predicament, Jean-Do
will use enormous courage and determination, and his soaring imagination
to escape from his trap. Tapping into the limitlessness of his memories,
fantasies, wit and wishes, he finds a way to race through experiences of
wonder and grief, sex and love, fatherhood and childhood, faith and
questioning, ecstasy and absurdity—and touches the very essence of what
it is to be human. Along the way he is buoyed by a quintet of remarkable
women: Céline (Emmanuelle Seigner), the mother of his children who
remains devoted to him despite his betrayal; Inés (Agathe de la
Fontaine), the girlfriend who still haunts him; Henriette (Marie-Josée
Croze) and Marie (Olatz Lopez Garamendia), who give Jean-Do the power to
re-connect with the world and his loved ones; and Claude (Anne Consigny),
who becomes his ravishing literary assistant. The cast of French stars
includes Max Von Sydow, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, the late
Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Marina Hands. [2007, Runtime: 112 minutes, Rated:
PG-13]
Art House Theater, #14 in the Movies at
Midway complex, features independent films programmed by the Rehoboth
Beach Film Society. For more information about the films, please visit the
Film Society website at www.rehobothfilm.com. For screening times, call
the Movies at Midway, 302-645-0200.
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