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From 28 January 2008: XV Film Cycle

Our first activity of the new year is, as is traditional, the cinema cycle, which this year reaches its fifteenth edition. All screenings will take place in the cinema Utopia of Luxembourg City. We have set up an interesting program that we outline below:

  • Wednesday 28 January 2008 at 9:30 p.m.: 53 winter days (2007), by Judith Colell:
  • 53 dies
    Director: Judith Colell
    screenplay: Gemma Ventura
    Actors: Mercedes Sampietro, Alex Brendemühl, Aina Clotet, Joaquim de Almeida
    Three characters meet one winter day at a bus stop where they find an abandoned dog. Valeria is a cellist who is in a relationship with a music teacher who is older than her. Mila returns to teaching after being assaulted by a student. Celso has lost his job after stealing a jewel for love. Three stories that drift away.

  • Wednesday 4 February 2008 at 9:30 p.m.: The orphanage (2007), by Juan Antonio Bayona:
  • The Orphanage
    Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
    Producer: Guillermo del Toro
    screenplay: Sergi G. Sánchez
    Actors: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Prince Roger, Mabel Ribera, Geraldine Chaplin

    Laura spent her childhood in an orphanage surrounded by other children whom she loved as if they were her brothers. D'adult, she returns to the same place with her husband and seven-year-old son, Simon, with the intention of restoring the house. The building awakens Simon's imagination, which starts games “strangers” with his friends. In the bag, Laura lets herself be sucked into her son's universe, convinced that a years-old mystery lurks behind the orphanage.

  • Thursday 7 February 2008 at 9:30 p.m.: Latch, the permanent revolt (2007), by Lluís Danès:
  • Latch
    Director: Louis Danès
    Producer: Jaume Roures
    screenplay: Lluís Arcarazo and Lila Pla
    Music: Lluis Llach

    He 3 March 1976, in Vitoria, on the occasion of a workers' meeting, the police intervention leaves five dead and more than a hundred wounded by bullets. that night, Lluís Llach composed what would become one of the most emblematic songs of this period of repression “Death bells”. Thirty years later, he 2006, Llach visits Vitoria to sing the song in a concert organized in memory of the victims of the 3 March. A journey through space and time guided by the music and lyrics of Llach where the memories of the singer-songwriter and the testimonies of the protagonists of the events are mixed. It's the story of a song, the portrait of the composer and the chronicle of the events that inspired it. A call to the permanent revolt against oblivion.

  • Wednesday 11 February 2008 at 9:30 p.m.: [REC] (2007), by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza:
  • REC
    Directors: Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza
    screenplay: Luis Berdejo
    Actors: Javier Botet, Manuel Bronchud, Martha Carbonell, Claudia Font

    Angela is a journalist for a local television station. With the camera operator, tells the daily life of those who work at night. This evening it's the fire station. It's a quiet night, no emergencies. Until an old woman calls asking for help: he has set himself on fire and he can't leave the house. The two journalists follow the firefighters and, upon arriving at the scene, the neighbors are worried. Creepy screams are heard coming from the lady's apartment. The report will be out of the routine, but they don't imagine to what extent.

  • Wednesday 16 February 2008 at 4:00 p.m. and at 5:30 p.m.: The Triplets and Don Quixote (2005)
  • The Triplets and Don Quixote
    Directors: Maria and Jordi Valbuena goal
    screenplay: Anna Manso, from an idea of ​​Roser d'Capdevila

    At 16h00 will show the Spanish version: The Triplets and Don Quixote. After, has 5:30 p.m., see Catalan version of the same movie.

    Triplets are in a village in La Mancha where Don Quixote know, a man obsessed with the novels of chivalry that character imagines one of them. The three girls help to build armor and he leaves to look for adventures with his horse Rocinante and his faithful squire Sancho Panza. Unfortunately, to meet the Bored Witch, imagines is his beloved Dulcinea.

    Here you will find a press note and the programme in French. For any information, we are at your disposal.