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The Son of the Bride (DVD)
Argentine director Juan Josi Campanella`s Oscar-nominated film is a low-key comedy drama, enhanced by compelling performances from a gifted cast. Middle-aged Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darmn) yearns for the carefree days of his boyhood, playing Zorro and watching old TV shows with his best friend, when any grief could be dispelled by a batch of his mothers fresh-baked cookies. At age 42, Rafael is busy running the restaurant he inherited from his parents, successful but dissatisfied with his life. He cant come to terms with the crippling Alzheimers from which his once-vibrant mother (Norma Aleandro) suffers, and he feels overwhelmed when his aging father (Hictor Alterio) asks him to help arrange a second marriage to his wife of 44 years to give her the kind of wedding she always wanted. After suffering a heart attack, Rafael decides its high time for a change. He will sell the restaurant and retire to Mexico. This means abandoning not only his career, but his parents, his young daughter (Gimena Nsbile), and his girlfriend (Natalia Verbeke). However, with the advice and counsel of his childhood friend, Juan Carlos (Eduardo Blanco), Rafael begins to realize that severing the ties that bind him to his loved ones might be harder than expected.R"
Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Beats of the Heart - The Romany Trail Pt.One: Gypsy Music Into Africa (DVD)
A music documentary examining the influence of gypsy music and dancing in Egypt.NR"
Place Vendome (DVD)
Catherine Deneuve stars in this thriller as Marianne Malivert, the elegantly wasted wife of a successful jeweler. Lost in the haze of alcoholism, Marianne hardly notices that her husband`s business is headed for bankruptcy and has never suspected him a criminal until he gives her five obviously stolen diamonds to look after. When he turns up dead the next day, Marianne finds that the diamonds are being pursued by the the De Beers cartel, her brother-in-law, and an enigmatic man named Battistelli, with whom she had an affair many years ago. Ms. Deneuve, who is brilliant as Marianne, and director Nicole Garcia have crafted an engaging crime drama and mood piece, one that projects an aura of decaying grandeur and the hope of new beginnings.NR"
Director: Nicole Garcia
ACTORS: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Fresson
Monkey Shines (DVD)
Allan Manns (Jason Beghe) life is falling apart. It starts when he goes for an early morning jog, only to be hit by a truck and wake up as a paraplegic. While hes learning to cope with his disability, his girlfriend (Janine Turner) leaves him for his surgeon. Allan becomes even more distraught when he assesses his life, which consists of an overly nurturing mother, an amphetamine-crazed best friend (John Pankow), and a permanent view from a wheelchair. However, things take a turn for the better for Allan when Ella enters his life. She is a capuchin monkey who has been trained to be his hands and help him to adapt to the new limits imposed on his body. Everything seems to be taking a turn for the better until Allan begins having violent dreams from Ellas point of view in which she is doing harm to those close to him. He then begins to fear that she might not be just an everyday helper monkey but also homicidally possessive to boot.
Michael Stewarts 1983 novel vividly comes to life in the able hands of veteran horror helmer George A. Romero. Though the human cast serves the material well, primate aficionados will revel in the bravura performance by Boo, who, as Ella, is undeniably menacing.R"
Director: George A. Romero
ACTORS: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Stephen Root
Mike Mainieri - Jazz Legends (DVD)
Recorded in New York at the Village Vanguard Club, this concert from 1982 shows off the talented jazz-fusion sounds of vibraphonist Mike Mainieri.NR"
