ALCINE39 is not held as a once-off incursion into the film world in the city. After the Alcalá de Henares/Comunidad de Madrid Film Festival the baton is handed back to the programming of the
Cine Club, which is being joined by the
International Feature Films Exhibit in the month of December. A total of ten films will be shown on the big screen of the
Teatro Salón Cervantes during the month.
The first film will be here on
Thursday the 3rd of December (18:30 and 21:00). '
Couscous' is a French production with a script and direction by
Abdel Kechiche. The film portrays the realities of a 60 year-old man working in a shipyard. He is divorced and tired of his work. His only objective focuses on keeping his loved ones together, an increasingly difficult task. It is with this complicated backdrop to his life that he decides to set off on the project of opening a restaurant.
A week later, on the
9th and 10th of December, the TSC will screen another French feature film, '
Let's Talk About the Rain'.
Agnès Jaoui directs and acts in this story the protagonist of which is a feminist devoted to politics. The film centres its attention on her return to the village of her birth to pick up the belongings of her recently deceased mother. A series of events are triggered off that set out to discuss ideas surrounding
humiliation and submissive relationships.
International Feature Films Exhibit
The
International Feature Films Exhibit is once again faithfully attending its appointment on the Alcalá de Henares Cultural Calendar.
From the 16th to the 20th of November, eight films will be screened in the TSC. The screenings will be made at
17:30, 19:45 and 22:00.
'
Whatever Works', the latest production from
Woody Allen, shows an eccentric who decides to leave his comfortable New York life to take on a more bohemian existence. '
Gran Torino', directed by and starring
Clint Eastwood, focuses its attention on Walt Kowalski. The degradation of the neighbourhood in which he has lived for decades is the trigger for him to follow his own rules.
Another of the Exhibit's films is '
Inglorious Basterds', scripted and directed by
Quentin Tarantino. The cast is led by
Brad Pitt and the film set in France during the
Nazi occupation.
The national section of the Exhibit is composed of '
Broken Embraces', the latest film from
Pedro Almodóvar and '
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo', an intimate offering from
Isabel Coixet. The Spanish language section is completed with the presence of '
The Secret of His Eyes', by Argentine director,
Juan José Campanella.
Ricardo Darín plays Benjamín, recently retired after a life spent working as a lawyer in the public courts, who decides to write a novel.
And there is a section for the younger film buffs amongst us composed of '
Coraline' and '
Ponyo on the Cliff'. All the feature films of the International Feature Films Exhibit can been seen with
subtitles in original version, except for the films aimed at a younger audience, which will be screened dubbed in Spanish.
