'The song of sparrows'

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Majid Majidi - IRAN - 2008 - fiction - color - '96 - OV - STT BIL

Iranian film that made a splash at the 2008 Berlin Festival. Karim, a good husband and father, gets fired from his job on an ostrich farm. Almost by accident, he starts working as a motorcycle taxi driver in the big city, but urban turpitudes threaten to spoil this countryman’s basic honesty. A metaphor about moral decline and redemption, the story opposes materialism and spirituality, as do all the films by Majid Majidi (who directed Baran, among others).

'Avaze gonjeshk-ha'

With: Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Aghazi

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'Love streams'

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John Cassavetes - USA - 1984 - fiction - color - 141' - OV

John Cassavetes’s 1984 last independent film focuses on a brother and sister, Robert and Jane, played by Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands (his wife and muse), who are tremulously attached to each other. She’s about to get a divorce and lose her daughter, he’s a compulsive womaniser. But they’ve reached the point where her excessive passion intensifies and his feelings are cooling off. Played with heart-breaking sensitivity by a director determined to pierce the mysteries of both bodies and souls.

With: John Cassavettes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel

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'Marie-Jo et ses deux amours'

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Robert Guédiguian - FR - 2002 - fiction - color - 124' - OV

A couple in real life and on screen, Robert Guédiguian and his favourite actress Ariane Ascaride produced this touching film (2002) about love and sharing, and the unpredictable ways of the heart and body. It’s about Marie-Jo, a middle-aged woman in Marseilles, her husband and lover of 12 months - two men she can’t and won’t choose between. Inevitably, this causes tensions, pain of aching intensity, while also being a hymn to the beauty of desire and its sometimes hurtful consequences.  

With: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan

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10ème chambre, instants d'audience

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Raymond Depardon - FRANCE - 2004 - doc - color - 105' - FV

In this remarkable documentary, French photographer and director Raymond Depardon placed his camera in the law courts of the 10th arrondissement in Paris for three months in 2003. The director of “Fait divers” and “Délits flagrants” sheds light on a justice system that often appears impenetrable. Twelve defendants, their charges ranging from drunk driving to stalking, appear in front of the formidable woman judge, while at the same time 12 enthralling slices of real life are exposed.

Coprod. Flagey / Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique

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