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May 4-6
$4 per screening, $7 per night, $20 festival pass
Walker's Point Center for the Arts
911 W National Ave
www.wpca-milwaukee.org
6 & 8pm programs
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UWM Union Theater
World Cinema
7pm
Climates
(Iklimler, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey/France, in Turkish w/ Eng. St., 101mins, 35mm, 2006)
Winner - Fipresci Award - 2006 Cannes Film Festival
Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, Climates vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni with its poetic use of landscape and the incisive, exquisitely visual rendering of loneliness, loss and the often-elusive nature of happiness. During a sweltering summer vacation on the Aegean coast, the relationship between middle-aged professor Isa and his younger, television producer girlfriend Bahar brutally implodes. Back in Istanbul that fall, Isa rekindles a torrid affair with a previous lover. But when he learns that Bahar has left the city for a job in the snowy East, he follows her there to win her back. “Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film paints a haunting portrait of existential solitude, one in which the images speak louder and often more forcefully than do any of the words.” – Manhola Dargis NEW YORK TIMES
9pm **FREE**
The Passenger
(Professione: reporter, Michelangelo Antonioni, France/Italy/USA, English, 35mm, 1975)
New 35mm Print!
This haunting and unique film is a portrait of a drained journalist, played by a very young Jack Nicholson, who finds his deliverance when a man in a neighboring hotel room dies. Assuming the dead man’s identity, he winds up embroiled in international arms smuggling while traveling the countryside with a beautiful stranger. Shot on location in Africa, Spain, Germany and England. “[A] cryptic, beautifully shot tale of the ultimate alienated protagonist. . . .and the ultimate existential love affair.” – Michael Wilmington CHICAGO TRIBUNE
