Just Didn’t Do It (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai)

info@kalamazooarts.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:47:44 EST

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
7 p.m.

Criminal trials result in a 99.9% conviction rate in Japan. That’s not good for a young man falsely accused of groping a high-school girl. Japanese Film Festival presented by the Soga Japan Center at Western Michigan University.
No admission charge.
Japanese with English subtitles
Reading Together 2010

BROKEN EMBRACES

info@kalamazooarts.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:47:44 EST

Friday, March 12, 2010, to Sunday, March 14, 2010
FRI-7 &9:30,SAT-4:30,7 &9:30,SUN-2:30,5 &7:30

"A vibrant, mature love letter to the making of movies, the meaning of movies, and the dark-eyed muse Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces doesn't so much break new ground in the filmmaker's instantly recognizable terrain as deepen an Almodóvarian's understanding of how this uniquely stylish Spanish artist sees the world. And as every frame of this chic and playful comedy/melodrama attests, he sees the world — of personal relationships and creative collaboration, of natural landscape and man-made decor- through a cinephile's magnifying lens."-Lisa Schwarzbaum-EW - starring Penelope Cruz - rated R -
127 minutes - in Spanish with English subtitles and English

""Broken Embraces" is a voluptuary of a film, drunk on primary colors, caressing Penelope Cruz, using the devices of a Hitchcock to distract us with surfaces while the sinister uncoils beneath. As it ravished me, I longed for a freeze frame to allow me to savor a shot."-Roger Ebert-4 stars

Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo - Film Events

Just Didn’t Do It (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai)

BROKEN EMBRACES