The Labia Goes STRICTLY ARTHOUSE
STRICTLY ARTHOUSE
The Labia, in association with the Coproduction Office of Paris screens a selection of eight contemporary arthouse films at its Orange Street cinemas starting Friday 26 February.
The season is entitled STRICTLY ARTHOUSE and comprises the following films:
● A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE (SWEDEN/GERMANY 2014)
Winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival, this beautifully shot dark comedy, directed by Roy Andersson, is described as a sly, humorous and wholly original look at the absurdity of life.
● AFTERSCHOOL (USA 2008)
Winner of the Jury Prize – Nashville Film Festival, and nominated for the Best First Feature at the Independent Spirit & Gotham Awards, this bold, audacious debut by writer-director Antonio Campos creates a mood of suspense and mystery, and marks the emergence of a major new talent in film.
● AMOUR FOU (AUSTRIA/GERMANY 2014)
Directed by Jessica Hausner, this is a romantic comedy drama loosely based on the 1811 suicide of the poet Heinrich von Kleist (author of Michael (author of Michael Kohlhaas & The Marquise of O).
● FORCE MAJEURE (SWEDEN/FRANCE 2014)
Nominated for the Golden Globe & Bafta for Best Foreign Language Film, Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes and directed by Ruben Ostlund, this compelling film set in the French Alps, is a wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama about the breakdown of a marriage.
● LE QUATTRO VOLTE (The Four Times) (ITALY 2010)
Winner of the AFM International Independent Film Award, directed by Michelangelo Frammartino,
And set in Italy’s mountainous region of Calabria,this unique film is an ineffably beautiful meditation on the mysterious cycles of life, and is told with both humour and pathos.
● LOURDES (AUSTRIA/FRANCE 2009)
Nothing tests faith more than a miracle in this award-winning film directed by Jessica Hausner, and starring, among others, Sylvie Testud and Léa Seydoux.
This remarkable film is set at Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
● PARADISE HOPE (AUSTRIA/GERMANY 2013)
Nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and insightfully directed by Ulrich Seidl, the film tells the poignant story of an overweight 13-year-old, and her first love at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers.
● YOU THE LIVING (SWEDEN/FRANCE 2007)
This Swedish submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, directed by Roy Andersson, is made up of fifty brilliantly staged and often darkly comic vignettes that illustrate the truth, humour, poetry and drama of human existence. A case of Monty Python meets Ingmar Bergman.
For more information and booking please call the Labia on 021 424 5927 or visit the website at www.thelabia.co.za