Week of July 8, 2010
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FILM Thursday 7/8 MYSTERIOUS CATCHIn 2009 Irish film "Ondine," a fisherman finds fairytale love in a strange way after drawing in a mysterious woman in his nets. At first appearing dead, the woman comes alive before his eyes. The two fall passionately in love, but just as it seems that the fairytale romance is forever, reality strikes. 4:20 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. 007's FRENCH COUNTERPART Dashing French intelligence agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, code named OSS 117, teams up with a sexy Israeli agent in 1960s Bossa Nova Brazil in "OSS 117: Rio Né Repond Plus" ("OSS 117: Lost in Rio") to capture a Nazi blackmailer with a long list of WWII French allies. The film is peppered with biting satire and wit, poking fun at French chauvinism and arrogance. In French with English subtitles. 9:10 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. COPS GONE BAD Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil star as two detectives turned bitter rivals vying for the same top position in "36." Who gets the job? The first person to stop a gang of armed robbers that have committed seven bloody murders in Paris within a year. As competition between the two intensifies, the line between moral and immoral thins to criminal. 9:10 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. PRISON LIFE Learn about the positive, transforming power of culture in Mexican prisons in documentary "Don Quijote: Un Grito de Libertad." 2 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. Free. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. TURBULENT TRAVELS A young couple's relationship is stretched to the breaking point on a Mediterranean vacation in "Alle Anderen" ("Everyone Else"). On the surface, Chris and Gitti are the picture-perfect couple. But beneath it all there is tension, exacerbated when they run into a happier, more successful couple, leading in the end to a second chance at happiness. 4 and 6:30 p.m. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. Free. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. BABY GROWS UP Make it a movie night in downtown Miami at the historic Gusman Center, including a pre-show happy hour, after-show dance party and screening of the 1987 film "Dirty Dancing" starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray. While vacationing in the Catskills with her family, Frances (also known as Baby) falls hard for a strapping dancer. 6 p.m. happy hour. 7 p.m. film screening. Gusman Center, 174 E Flagler St., Miami. $10. Free parking with ticket stub at the Miami Parking Authority's Convention Center Garage, 100 SE Second St., Miami. Details: (305) 372-0925 or www.gusmancenter.org.
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