A 17-year-old travels from village to city looking for his father in this first feature (2005) by mainland Chinese director Ying Liang, who used friends and relatives as his cast and a borrowed video camera. In Mandarin with subtitles. 100 min. aRiver East, 4:30 PM
Returning to his hometown from Milan, a middle-aged professional (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) tries to mediate an ongoing feud between two of his three brothers but only gets drawn in. Writer-director Sergio Rubini creates a fair amount of tension in the first half of this Italian drama, as he delineates the turbulent relationships between the four very different men. But after a murder is committed the film devolves into a fairly standard whodunit with an irritatingly tidy resolution. Rubini, a veteran character actor, casts himself as a sleazy, violent loan shark and gives a memorably menacing performance. With Paolo Briguglia, Massimo Venturiello, and Emilio Solfrizzi. In Italian with subtitles. 112 min. (JK) aLandmark, 8 PM
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For his first fiction feature, actor and documentarian Nils Tavernier filmed a modern ballet at the Opera National de Paris about a princess from a poor country where dance is forbidden. In French with subtitles. 97 min. aRiver East, 4 PM
An aging writer (Patrick Bauchau of The State of Things) who has lost his wife and child falls in love with a younger woman in this French feature by Viviane Candas. In French with subtitles. 92 min. aLandmark, 6:30 PM
LES BONNES FEMMES (Not rated) Director: Claude Chabrol. With Stphane Audran, Bernadette Lafont, Lucille Saint-Simon. (102 min.) +++ Revival of a 1960 drama that helped launch Chabrol as a key figure in France’s innovative New Wave movement, focusing on four young women who dream of escaping their dreary shop-clerk routines and finding more romantic, exciting lives. Not as memorable as Chabrol’s greatest movies, but definitely worth a visit by fans of European film and anyone curious about the New Wave’s huge influence on Hollywood cinema. Photographed by the great Henri Deca. In French with English subtitles.
RUNAWAY BRIDE (PG) Director: Garry Marshall. With Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Paul Dooley, Hector Elizondo. (110 min.) ++ A jaded journalist writes a column about a woman who’s ditched three bridegrooms at the altar, then visits her small Southern town to meet her and her latest hopeful fianc. The screenplay provides enough cute one-liners and love-struck speeches to give the comedy intermittent charm. Still, star-power is its main asset as it reunites Gere and Roberts with director Marshall for the first time since their “Pretty Woman” became a runaway hit. +++ Nice, light, predictable, fun. Sex/Nudity: Some mild sexual innuendo. Violence: 1 punch. Profanity: 8 mild expressions. Drugs: 10 scenes with alcohol.
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