'Rachel'

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Simone Bitton - F/B – 2009 – documentaire – kleur / couleur – 100’ – VO / OV – NL OND / STT FR

Documentary about the 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie who was crushed to death in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer as she tried to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home. Director Simone Bitton returned five years later to the scene of the tragedy in the Gaza strip, and talked to witnesses from either side of the divide, reconstructing the young woman’s life while also offering thoughts on idealism, political commitment and utopias.

Screening on tue 05.01 in presence of the director Simone Bitton

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'Odds Against Tomorrow' - Blue notes and crime movies

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Robert Wise - USA – 1959 – fictie / fiction – zwart-wit / n&b – 95’ – OV / VO – NL OND / STT FR (New print)

« A pavane for the death of two losers » is how Jacques Lourcelles described this dusky Robert Wise thriller about the preparations for a bank heist that go horribly wrong. Produced by Harry Belafonte, who plays the lead alongside Robert Ryan, and written under a false name by the blacklisted Abraham Polonsky, Odds Against Tomorrow is a breathless thriller as well as an antiracist tract splendidly served by the scintillating score written by the Modern Jazz Quartet’s pianist John Lewis.

With: Harry Bellafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters

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'Eccentricities of a blond hair girl'

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Manoel de Oliveira - PT / E / F – 2009 – fictie / fiction – kleur / couleur – 64’ – OV / VO – NL OND / STT FR

(Singularidades de uma rapariga loura)
Portuguese film-maker Manuel de Oliveira, who is still going strong although he is over 100 years old, produced this laidback farce about the unpredictability of love. A young accountant in Lisbon (the director’s grandson Ricardo Trêpa) falls passionately in love with a woman he glimpses in the office courtyard. The story ends with an delightful last-minute twist.

With: Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Luis Miguel Cintra

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