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This week at movies
• RETURN TO BOLIVIA. A family of Bolivian immigrants travels to their home country after being gone for eight years, only to find radical changes that mean the Bolivia they had known is no more. A personal perspective on migration by Argentine director Mariano Raffo. (Argentina, 2009, in Spanish and Aymara) Directed by: Mariano Raffo. Research and screenplay: Marina Boolls and Mariano Raffo. Featuring Janeth Cuiza, David Quispe, Jhoselyn Quispe Cuiza, Camila Quispe Cuiza, Brian Quispe Cuiza. Running time: 97 minutes.
• HOME. A very peculiar family suffers when an abandoned highway is rebuilt: soon, cars will start driving by again and their life will turn into a living hell. With the French acting sensation Isabelle Huppert. (Switzerland/ France/ Belgium, 2008, in French) Directed by: Ursula Meier. Written by: Antoine Jaccoud, Olivier Lorelle, Ursula Meier, Gilles Taurand, Raphaelle Valbrune and Alice Winocour -Featuring Isabelle Huppert, Olivier Gourmet, Adéla de Leroux, Madeleine Budd, Kacey Mottet Klein, Renaud Rivier.
• THE PROPOSAL (LA PROPUESTA). Sandra Bullock is a bigshot executive at a book publisher, and a mean slavedriver to her assistant (Ryan Reynolds). Yet, a hiccup in her migratory status forces her to propose to him in order to avoid deportation to her native Canada. He will say yes, but the terms of the deal he offers will come as a shock. (US, 2009, in English) Directed by: Anne Fletcher - Written by: Pete Chiarelli - Featuring Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O’Hare.
• UN CONTE DE NOEL (EL PRIMER DIA DEL RESTO DE NUESTRAS VIDAS). Arnaud Desplechin is one of the most daring and experimental French filmmakers today. On this film, a mother (Catherine Deneuve) is ill and can only be helped by her son (Mathieu Amalric), even though he is reviled by her own sister (Emile Berling). (France, 2008, in French) Directed by: Arnaud Desplechin - Written by: Arnaud Desplechin an0d Emmanuel Bourdieu - Featuring Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot, Chiara Mastroianni - NC16 - Running time: 150 minutes.
• GOODBYE BAFANA (EL PRECIO DE LA LIBERTAD). It’s 1968. Nelson Mandela (Dennis Haysbert) has a white jail ward (Joseph Fiennes) who watches him because he speaks the local language, and who believes that all blacks are subhuman creatures. The unstable balance of power between them will be upset. (Germany/ France/ Belgium/ South Africa/ Italy/ Great Britain/ Luxembourg, 2007, English and Xhosa) Directed by: Bille August - Screenplay: Greg Latter and adaptation by John Kaylin on a book by Bob Graham and James Gregory - Featuring Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Patrick Lyster, Shiloh Henderson, Tyrone Keogh - PG13 - Running time: 117 minutes.
• ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (LA ERA DE HIELO 3). Our favourite prehistoric heroes will bring their familiar foibles to a subterranean world full of dinosaurs, a crazy wildlife and a persistent one-eyed weasel. (US, 2009, in English and dubbed into Spanish) Directed by: Carlos Saldanha and Mike Thurmeier - Written by: Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Mike Reiss. Featuring the voices of Eunice Cho, Karen Disher, Harrison Fahn, Maile Flanagan, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah. G. Running time: 94 minutes.
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