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NEWS OF ATHENS' CINEMA SCENE
Ecstatic Peace: I hope, like me (barely), a
good number of you managed to catch Of
Gods and Men during its two-week run at
Cine; if the healthy crowd at the second-
to-last screening of that engagement was
any indication, you did. The first I'd heard
of it was in a January essay by A.O. Scott
in The New York Times, much cited since
then, that seriously questioned the process
through which foreign films are selected for
the Academy Awards (Xavier Beauvois' film
was France's submission in the "Best Foreign
Film" category, but was not chosen as one of
the five nominees) and, further, the complex
calculus of distribution and disinterest whose
product is Americans' near-total ignorance (or
perhaps, more fairly, innocence) of what Scott
termed "a golden age of foreign films." If
we're glad Of Gods and Men has surmounted
the odds to become a rare "hit" on the ever-
shrinking U.S. art-house circuit, we should
also remind ourselves that it's nice to be a
stop on that.
The movie itself is extraordinary. It's about
a group of French monks caught in the cross
fire of a radical Islamist insurgency against
the repressive government of a former French
colony; though it's not made explicit until
the end of the film, it won't spoil anything to
reveal that it's based on true events during
an Algerian uprising in the 1990s. But this
Juliette Binoche, whose performance earned
her the best actress award at Cannes last year,
and the British opera singer William Shimell;
it's supposed to be a fairly striking stylistic
departure from the often abject realism for
which the director is known. I can't wait to
see it. And Thai director Apichatpong "Joe"
Weerasethakul's Unde Boonmee Who Can
Remember His Past Lives, which took last
year's Palm d'Or, has finally gotten a theatrical
release here, so perhaps we can hope finally
to see it this summer.
Down the line, I'm also excited about Cold
Weather, an unorthodox modem mystery from
mumblecore veteran Aaron Katz, later this
month, and in June, Kelly Reichardt's Meek's
Cutoff, which reunites the director with her
Wendy and Lucy star, Michelle Williams. Stay
alert!
MaU Doc: So, some of you may be aware that
local musician Adam Klein went to Mali,
West Africa a little over a year ago to record
an album in the Malian "Mande" style—sung,
by Klein, in the Bambara language, which
he speaks comfortably—with musicians he
befriended there while serving in the Peace
Corps. And you may also know that he was
accompanied by erstwhile Athenian filmmaker
Jason Miller, who shot footage for a "mak
ing of the album" documentary that will also
William Shimell and Juliette Binoche in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy, now playing at Cin6.
is not a "message" film about how awful it
is for innocent people to be the casualties of
horrid wars, or at least not at all simply that.
Its true subject, rather, is the way that each
of the men feces the near certainty of his own
violent death: the film recounts, with remark
able insight and clarity, the monks' examina
tions of their motives,-and even of their faith,
as their martyrdom approaches. That's not an
easy thing to do, but Beauvois and his marvel
ous ensemble cast are up to the challenge.
If you missed Of Gods and Men in the the
ater, mark your calendar for July 5—that's
when it'll be released on DVD.
A Keep an Eye Out The 2011 Cannes Rim
Festival begins in a week, which means it's
about time for the non-U.S. films that made
a splash at the 2010 festival to make their
leisurely way to us. Currently showing at Cin§,
at least through May 5 and hopefully beyond,
is Certified Copy, the venerated Iranian direc
tor Abbas Kiarostami's first film made outside
his native country. Shot in Tuscany, it stars
focus on the lives of the people Klein knows
there and his friendships with them. I tell you
now that, though the film is not yet complete
(or, apparently, even titled), you may view a
trailer for it at www.adam-klein.tumblr.com,
where you can also learn more about the proj
ect and even make a donation to help finish
it. Check it out—it's cool.
Free, Free, Free: With ICE-Vision now on hiatus
until the beginning of the feU semester, the.
ACC Library's iFilms will hold down this space
for free weekly film series. The entry for May 5
at 7 p.m. is Welcome to ShelbyviUe, a new doc
about a small Southern town's pains of adapta
tion as an influx of Latinos and Somali Muslims
charges its demographics. The Girl In the
Lake, showing at 6:30 May 12, is an award
winning 2007 mystery from Italian director
Andrea Molaioli. Screenings are in the audito
rium of the main library at 2025 Baxter St For
more info, go to www.clarke.public.libs.ga.us.
Dave Marr
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