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Spanglish

Cultures collide as Flor (Paz Vega), a beautiful Mexican woman, and her twelve-year-old daughter move in with an affluent Los Angeles family (Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni and Cloris Leachman). Of all the horrors Flor imagined about this new culture, she never fathomed the peril of being truly embraced by an upscale American family. Written and directed by James L. Brooks.

Hide and Seek

A father discovers his 9-year-old daughter has come up with an unexpected and terrifying way of dealing with her mother's death through an imaginary friend. The daughter has an imaginary friend named Charlie, and her father soon realizes that Charlie isn't make believe. Starring Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Dylan Baker and Robert John Burke. Directed by John Polson.

AUA

The real film freak can get him/herself to AUA on Rajdamnern Road, just up from Pratu Thapae. There, in Chiang Mai’s coolest, most convenient little English-language library, you can take your pick of close to 200 of the choicest videos going. You want Five Easy Pieces, Trainspotting, Leaving Las Vegas, Das Boot, Apocalypse Now, La Haine, Mon Oncle, Men in Black, The Third Man, Taxi Driver, Wild Strawberries, Cyrano de Bergerac, Blade Runner, The Simpsons, The Bicycle Thieves, etc. etc. etc? You do? Well, they got it. And for a smallish charge you can either take it home or see it on the premises. And now - DVDs too!

ART FILM Programs
Faculty of Media Art & Design, Chiang Mai University proudly presents:
Film Space Project

These films are to be shown on the rooftop of the Faculty of Media Art and Design, Chiang Mai UniversityArt Museum. Every Saturday at 6.30 p.m. (Free Admission)

March - The Month of Heart-warming Stories

Some assume that Christy Brown is just a retard, born with disabled limbs. However, his dedicated mother and an insightful teacher believe he has more than meets the eye, and that there are yet some tricks under his immobile sleeves. Jim Sheridan's direction and Daniel Day-Lewis's legendary performance show this man being transformed into a renowned artist, poet and writer, who has use only of his left foot. Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker won Oscars for their brilliant performances.

Director Wolfgang Becker takes us back to the year 1989, when the Berlin Wall was still intact. A young man is arrested for his protest against the East German regime. His mother watches in distress and falls into an 8-month long coma, during which time the wall comes down and Germany re-unites. The man is released and he watches over his mother, protecting her from any excitement at all costs. As she comes round the young man is faced with the predicament of convincing her that East Germany is still alive and well in their own flat. But how long can the charade last?

Northern England, 1984: the young Billy Elliot is having a difficult time. His father and brother are miners at the forefront of the strike in 1980s' Yorkshire. They want him to be a man, strong and tough, and send Billy to boxing lessons. But the 11-year-old feels himself attracted towards another activity in the gym - ballet. Director Stephen Daldry paints a heart-rending picture of hard times, courage and of how life finds its way.

This is the story of a new kid in town. Ludovic, who at 7 years of age believes that a girl is trapped inside his male body. He likes to wear his mother's dresses, to speak to his Barbie doll named Pam, and dreams of marrying his father's boss's son. Alas, his sexuality is violently rejected by his parents. Belgian director Alain Berliner won a golden globe award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1997 for this his debut film.

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE CHIANG MAI
March 2005 film programme

Friday, March 4, 20h00
LE FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMELIE POULAIN (2000)

Amelie is looking for love, and perhaps for the meaning of life in general. We see her grow up in an original if slightly dysfunctional family. Now a waitress in central Paris, she interacts curiously with her neighbors and customers, as well as a mysterious Photomaton-image collector and one of his even more mysterious photo subjects. Little by little, Amelie realizes that the way to happiness (and yet more subtle humor) requires her to take her own initiative and reach out to others...

Friday, March 11, 20h00
L'HOMME DU TRAIN (2002)

At a deserted train station, a teacher and a gangster meet and realize that each might have been better suited to the other man's way of life. As a friendship of sorts develops between these opposite personalities, each starts to envy the other and by the week's end, everything will change for both of them...

Friday, March 18, 20h00
FANFAN LA TULIPE (2002)

In this 2002 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe (Perez) is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise (Cruz), who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters...

Friday, March 25, 20h00
BON VOYAGE (2002)

At the start of World War II, the fate of the free world hangs in the balance at the posh Hotel Splendide in Bordeaux. Cabinet members, journalists, physicists, and spies of all persuasions gather in order to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris. High society socialites hobnob with jailbirds. Murderous intrigues, scientific secrets and love affairs flourish...

Friday, April 1, 20h00
LES CHORISTES (2003)

Set in 1948, a professor of music, Clement Mathieu, becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation for minors. What he discovers disconcerts him - the current situation is repressive. Through the power of music, will Clement transform the students?