Aug 4, 2010
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‘Change of Plans,’ a French Comedy of Manners, Opens September 10 on SFFS Screen at Sundance Kabuki CinemasStrong Performances by All-Star Cast Drive a Story of Parisians Dissecting Their Loves, Lives and Extramarital Relationships over Wine and Dinner8/4/2010Change of Plans (Le code a changé, France 2009), Danièle Thompson’s light comedy about a friendly dinner that turns from civil to contentious, opens Friday, September 10 on SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.
Danièle Thompson (Jet Lag, SFIFF 2003) returns with another glistening example of the brand of choral comedy she has perfected. A group of friends and acquaintances gather for dinner, and the atmosphere couldn’t be friendlier-with great food, wine and conversation on hand. Slowly the masks of civility drop and suspicions, jealousies and fears emerge. Darker in tone than Thompson’s earlier work, Change of Plans still features her knowing and generous wit. As always, she has gathered a first-rate cast: Karin Viard, Patrick Bruel, Patrick Chesnais, Marina Hands, Dany Boon, Marina Foïs, Emmanuelle Seigner and Pierre Arditi. The seamlessness of their performances is a tribute not only to Thompson’s script, cowritten with her son Christopher, who appears in the film, but also to her very precise orchestration of the action as disparate characters and stories come together. As in her earlier films, Thompson returns to using shared spaces as ways to explore the banalities and transformative junctures of everyday life. With Change of Plans, she inverts the notion of bourgeois complacency, making the notion of settled lives at fortysomething collide with the reality of life-altering changes, mortality, new love and self-discovery. -Rendezvous with French Cinema, 2009
Written by Danièle Thompson, Christopher Thompson. Photographed by Jean-Marc Fabre. With Karin Viard, Dany Boon, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marina Hands. In French with English subtitles. 100 min. Distributed by IFC.
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Now Playing on SFFS Screen
Alamar Extended to August 12! Pedro González-Rubio’s lovingly made story of the growing bond between a father and son who are spending a summer together on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, demonstrates exquisite poetry and sophisticated craft.
Also coming to SFFS Screen
August 6: Making Plans for Lena In Christophe Honoré’s latest work a family weekend in the Breton countryside spirals out of control for recent divorcée Lena (Chiara Mastroianni) when her mother invites her ex over without her knowledge in this New Wave-inspired look at a woman on the verge.
August 13: Vengeance Johnnie To’s genre-busting gem populated by a hit man turned chef, family men moonlighting as assassins and earnestly official women detectives stars Johnny Hallyday, the iconic French crooner who exudes cool.
August 20: Army of Crime Robert Guédiguian’s lush historical drama focuses on a largely overlooked cell of French Resistance fighters-refugees of the antifascist fight throughout Europe, mostly Jews and communists-led by French Armenian poet Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian) and his wife Mélinée (Virginie Ledoyen).
August 27: The Two Escobars Through the parallel life stories of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar and star soccer player Andrés Escobar, Jeff and Michael Zimbalist’s documentary reveals the shocking connections between crime and sport during the glory years of Colombian soccer.
September 3: Dogtooth In Yorgos Lanthimos’s new drama the matriarch and patriarch of an upper-class Greek family teach their three college-age offspring an alternate language to insulate them from the outside world.
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