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Ticket
Sales:
$9.00
General Admission
$6.00 Seniors
$6.00 Children between age 5 & 12
Tickets may be purchased in advance in person at the Quad
box office
or by calling 777-FILM (theater express code 636) |
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ZUS & ZO
Comedy
/ 105 min / 2001 / Director: Paula van der Oest
This 2002 Oscar entry opens with
32-year-old Nino’s decision to marry his girlfriend
Bo, causing a panic attack in his three sisters. Nino
is gay and if he marries, will inherit their idyllic
seaside home in Portugal. The siblings hatch various
schemes to torpedo Nino’s inheritance, but Bo
invites them to Portugal for wedding preparations. Culminating
in a surprise twist, ZUS & ZO was described by Variety
as having, “a madcap…vibe with an ingratiating
lustiness.” It will be distributed in the US by
Lifesize Entertainment, opening in 2003.
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AMNESIA
Drama
/ 87 Min / 2001 / Director: Martin Koolhaven
This stylish and psychologically
taut first thriller from newcomer Martin Koolhaven about
a reunion between twin brothers ultimately reveals dark
family secrets. When his mother falls seriously ill,
Alex returns home to the constant taunts of his twin
Aram, a career criminal. The surreal enclosed world
of the family estate sets off traumatic flashbacks for
Alex about the mysterious death of the twins’
father and his lover. Variety remarks, the “brooding,
well-constructed drama gets considerable mileage out
of the schizoid twin dynamic.” Fedja van Huet,
playing both twin brothers, won the Golden Calf for
Best Actor at the Dutch Film Festival in 2001.
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ADRIFT
Drama
/ 89 min / 2001 / Director: Michiel van Jaarsveld
Michiel van Jaarsveld’s feature
début, a tough coming of age tale, portrays the
sexual awakening of 15-year-old Sammy, left in the care
of her older brother Jacob, a skinhead with a suprisingly
sweet disposition. A provocative mix of Sammy’s
bad-girl antics, including the seduction of her best
friend’s father, inflames both Jacob’s protectiveness
and sexual jealousy. b performances by both leads
combined with a constantly shifting handheld camera
and an equally fast-moving montage style create an impressive
portrait of the duo’s precarious relationship.
Selected for Rotterdam, the Toronto International Film
Festival, and San Sebastian IFF in 2001, Variety lauds
ADRIFT “as an original take on the adolescent
search for freedom.”
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TUSSENLAND
Drama
/ 83 min / 2002 / Director: Eugenie Jansen
Veteran documentarian Eugenie Jansen’s
first feature is also the first homegrown film to earn
the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film
Festival. TUSSENLAND focuses on the unlikely friendship
between isolated 81-year-old widower Jakob and young
Sudanese immigrant Majok struggling to adapt to life
in the Netherlands. Jakob is still deeply troubled by
his late 1940’s war experiences in the Dutch East
Indies and his wife’s recent death, while Majok
longs for his homeland. Eventually, the similarities
between the two outweigh their suspicions, creating
an awkward yet resilient bond. Variety describes the
film as “poignant…and touching…graced
by lovely, natural performance from the non-professional
cast.”
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THE STONERAFT
Drama
/ 103 min / 2002 / Director: George Sluizer
Adapted from a novel by 1998 Nobel
Prize Winner Jose Saramago, THE STONERAFT is cast as
a magical realist fable set off by the mysterious occurrence
of a geological chasm separating the Iberian peninsula
from the rest of Europe. As it floats out to sea, a
bachelor threesome goes on the road looking for answers,
finding romance along the way. They encounter scenes
of religious hysteria and mass evacuation which are
intercut with droll segments parodying the global media
response (the US in particular). Veteran director George
Sluizer, (THE VANISHING, UTZ) sets his film in spectacular
and beautifully photographed locations. Variety remarks,
“a death and metaphorical rebirth ends the tale
on an ambiguous yet hopeful note.”
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ÎLES FLOTTANTES
Drama / 78 min / 2001 / Director:
Nanouk Leopold
A promising
debut film about a trio of 30-year-old women gains appeal
from its three sparkling young actresses.
Coquettish Kate, artistic Isa, and relatively mature
Sasha drift through good and bad relationships, including
one with a suave Russian businessman and another with
an abusive Dutch boyfriend. Working their way through
nonstop dialogue, the women manage to create distinctive
characters. Director Leopold emphasizes the three friends’
solidarity, which overcomes their various tiffs and
still-adolescent egoism. Ultimately each comes to realize
the importance of finding their own identities before
finding partners. An audience favorite in Rotterdam,
ÎLES FLOTTANTES was nominated for the coveted
Tiger Award.
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QUI VIVE
Drama
/ 93 min / 2002 / Director: Frans Weisz
Based
on a play by Judith Hertzberg, QUI VIVE is the saga
of a large Jewish family haunted by the Holocaust.
Celebrating the parents’ fortieth wedding anniversary,
multiple characters bicker, make up, and reveal painful
secrets. Nico, hidden as a child by Dutch farmers, resigns
his prestigious job and retreats to the countryside
near Auschwitz. Family patriarch Zwart is increasingly
obsessed with his first wife’s letters, written
from a concentration camp. Veteran director Frans Weisz
casts much of QUI VIVE as film within film, with one
brother constantly videotaping everyone while the film’s
sharp dialogue raises complex issues about history,
memory, and forgetting.
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THE DISCOVERY OF HEAVEN
Drama / 127 min / 2002 / Director:
Jeroen Krabbe
Adapted
from Harry Mulisch’s internationally acclaimed
novel of the same title, DISCOVERY is a somewhat apocalyptic
saga shot in dazzling locations in Holland, Spain, Italy,
and Israel. Exasperated with humanity, God demands the
return of the Ten Commandments, and his Angels set up
a complex plan to produce a special child for this task.
British actor Stephen Fry plays the boy’s father
with wit and grace, and Director Krabbe casts himself
as the angel Gabriel. A box office hit in Holland, DISCOVERY
was described by Fry as a “Greek view of heaven,
where the gods are spiteful and jealous of humanity…”
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FATAL REACTION: MOSCOW
Documentary / 93 min / 2000 /
Director: Marijke Jongbloed
The
final episode in Jongbloed’s four-part series
examining career women and their relationships focuses
on 40-yearold Larisa, exploring the complex and affectionate
relationships with her mother, teenage daughter, current
boyfriend, and ex-husband. As she knows, today’s
Moscow includes thriving matchmaking businesses whose
views suggest women should coddle their husbands and
most men are more interested in beauty than brains.
Juxtaposing documentary sequences with scenes from an
elegant performance of Gogol’s THEMARRIAGE (1842),
images of Russian State Circus bear-tamer Tatiana, and
strip clubs for women only, FATAL REACTION: MOSCOW portrays
the changing gender roles in the new Russia with wit
and sympathy.
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FIRST KILL
Documentary
/ 73 min / 2001 / Director: Coco Schrijber
FIRST KILL juxtaposes people’s
war experiences to create a provocative work about the
tenuous line between good and evil. Featuring in-depth
comments by former Vietnam war correspondent Michael
Herr (DISPATCHES and screenwriter for FULL METAL JACKET
and APOCALYPSE NOW) and interviews with several articulate
Vietnam vets, the film also shows young tourists in
Vietnam firing AK-47’s and crawling through Vietcong
tunnels. Schrijber attributes her fascination with the
extremities of war and killing to her upbringing as
the child of camp survivors. Already screened at numerous
international festivals, FIRST KILL is an extraordinarily
tough examination of the most troubling and essential
questions about human nature.
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