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May 10, 2009 News

European Film Festival offers a mix of drama and comedy

The Theatre Guild Playhouse this week plays host to the 2009 European Film Festival.
A total of 10 films will be shown from Monday-Friday, with the opening night featuring Run Lola Run, a thriller by German writer/director Tom Tykwer about a young woman in Germany who has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.
On Tuesday, the first movie is a showcase of Belgian cinema with the feature Villa des Roses. Set in Paris in 1913, its tells of the efforts of the male guests of a small boarding house to win the affections of the new maid, but only one of them does; the story takes a turn when she becomes pregnant and his attention is diverted otherwise.
Playing with Villa des Roses, is the movie titled after the highly regarded 17th century Dutch painter Rembrandt. The plot is of four Danish petty thieves who end up, without knowing it, fetching away the authentic painting Rembrandt of Denmark.
Wednesday’s run is of two highly rated comedies: Shouf Shouf Habibi (Hush Hush Baby) and Bella Martha (Mostly Martha). Shouf Shouf Habibi is a Dutch film about Abdullah ‘Ap” Bentarek, a second generation Moroccan immigrant in the Netherlands, who joins with a band of good-for-nothing friends, lands a job with the very bank his friends plan on robbing, but messes up the plans. His sister meanwhile, refuses to be married off, and his kid brother abuses his father’s ignorance of the Dutch language and so the teacher’s complaints become compliments.
Bella Martha is a German comedy that tells of how an Italian sous-chef lightens the mood between headstrong chef Martha and her eight-year-old niece of the same disposition.
De Tweeling (Twin Sisters) and Comedian harmonists are the two films billed for Thursday. De Tweeling is a Dutch-German co production set around twin-sisters Anna and Lotte Bamberg, who are separated after the death of their parents; one fends a life on the farms of Germany, while the other ends up in an upper class family in Holland. The plot develops into their eventual meeting, due to circumstances surrounding World War 11.
The plot for Comedian Harmonsist begins in late 1920s in Berlin about a young actor and musician who endeavours to set up a German equivalent of American acapella band ‘The Revellers.’ His plan materialises, but their success fails to last, owing to nasty politics.
The final day of the Festival screens three films: Die Gottesanbeterin (Praying Mantis) and Den Osynlige (Invisible) and Donau.
Praying Mantis is of Trixi, who decides to change her slob of a husband by giving him a mix of medication and then lining up a short term spouse; but things change when her friend’s husband starts demand several varieties of payment.
In Invisible Donau, what is supposed to be the ship Donau’s final journey from Vienna to the Black Sea, changes drastically as the ship captain is forced into new adventures because of a young man’s quest to fulfill a dying woman’s wish.
The films begin at 18:30 hrs each night and admission is free.

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