Week of January 13, 2011
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FILM Thursday 1/13 "UNDERTOW"Set in a remote Peruvian fishing village, "Undertow" ("Contracorriente") is a ghostly tale of love and loss centering on the love triangle between a married couple and the husband's male lover. The film has won almost 40 film-festival awards — including the Sundance World Cinema Audience Award for Dramatic Filmmaking — and is Peru's submission for this year's foreign Oscar. 9:15 p.m. Additional showings throughout the month. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. UGLY REVENGE In 2010 French film "Leaving," ("Partir") the bourgeois wife of a successful doctor living in the south of France finds refuge from her lackluster life in a passionate affair with the young Ivan, an immigrant ex-con working on her family's property. Wracked with guilt, she confesses to her husband, whose retaliation unleashes a series of ugly events. In French with English subtitles. 7:10 p.m. Additional showings throughout the month. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. Friday 1/14 "WHITE WEDDING"South African comedy "White Wedding" blends the hilarity of a wedding gone wrong with an eye-opening look at racism and Africa's reality. The feel-good comedy is set among picturesque South African landscapes. Times vary. Jan. 14-20. Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables. $5-$9. Details: (786) 385-9689 or info@coralgablescinemateque.org or www.cinemateque.org. OUTSIDE THREATS In "Never Let Me Go," Kathy, Tommy and Ruth come of age in Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. Yet when they leave the shelter of its grounds, they find out the terrible truth of their fate, which threatens to tear the three apart. Cast includes Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield. 7 p.m. Additional showings throughout the month. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm. Sunday 1/16 WOMAN OF CONVICTIONGerman 2009 film "Vision — from the Life of Hildegard von Bingen" follows a nun's fierce battle to expand opportunities for women within the order. Shot in the medieval cloisters of the German countryside. In German with English subtitles. 6:55 p.m. Additional showings throughout the month. Miami Dade College Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St., Miami. $6. Details: (305) 643-8706 or www.mdc.edu/culture/tower.htm.
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