Release Date: December 29, 2010 (NY, LA; limited: Jan. 28)
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenwriter: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo, Nicolás Giacobone
Starring: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella, Eduard Fernández, Cheikh Ndiaye, Diaryatou Daff, Taisheng Cheng, Jin Luo 2
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for disturbing images, language, some sexual content, nudity and drug use)
Plot Summary: "Biutiful" is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins. As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life's corridors, whether bright, bad - or biutiful.
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenwriter: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo, Nicolás Giacobone
Starring: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella, Eduard Fernández, Cheikh Ndiaye, Diaryatou Daff, Taisheng Cheng, Jin Luo 2
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for disturbing images, language, some sexual content, nudity and drug use)
Plot Summary: "Biutiful" is a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins. As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life's corridors, whether bright, bad - or biutiful.
Blue Valentine
Release Date: December 29, 2010 (NY, LA; expands: Jan. 7)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Screenwriter: Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, Joey Curtis
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman, Maryann Plunkett
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for strong graphic sexual content, language, and a beating)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Screenwriter: Derek Cianfrance, Cami Delavigne, Joey Curtis
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel, John Doman, Maryann Plunkett
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: R (for strong graphic sexual content, language, and a beating)
Plot Summary: "Blue Valentine" is the story of love found and love lost told in past and present moments in time. Flooded with romantic memories of their courtship, Dean and Cindy use one night to try and save their failing marriage. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in this honest portrait of a relationship on the rocks.
Release Date: December 29, 2010 (limited)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Mike Leigh
Screenwriter: Mike Leigh
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Oliver Maltman, David Bradley, Karina Fernandez, Martin Savage, Michele Austin, Phil Davis, Stuart McQuarrie, Imelda Staunton
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some language)
Plot Summary: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes... A happily married, middle-aged couple is visited by a number of friends who use them as confidants
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Mike Leigh
Screenwriter: Mike Leigh
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Oliver Maltman, David Bradley, Karina Fernandez, Martin Savage, Michele Austin, Phil Davis, Stuart McQuarrie, Imelda Staunton
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for some language)
Plot Summary: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes... A happily married, middle-aged couple is visited by a number of friends who use them as confidants
The Strange Case Of Angelica
Release Date: December 29, 2010 (NY)
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Screenwriter: Manoel de Oliveira
Starring: Pilar López de Ayala
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Plot Summary: A comic, touching and transcendent meditation on love and life by 101 year-old master Manoel de Oliveira (Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl, Belle Toujours, I'm Going Home, The Convent). Adapted from a screenplay he first wrote over a half-century ago, Oliveira's new film is a magical tale of an impossible love. Late one night, a young photographer named Isaac (Ricardo Trêpa, the director's grandson and frequent collaborator), is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last portrait of their daughter, Angelica (Pilar López de Ayala/In the City of Sylvia), a beautiful new bride who has mysteriously passed away. Arriving at their estate, Isaac is struck by Angelica's beauty, but when he looks through his lens, the young woman appears to come to life. From that moment, Isaac will be haunted by Angelica day and night.
Studio: IFC Films
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Screenwriter: Manoel de Oliveira
Starring: Pilar López de Ayala
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Plot Summary: A comic, touching and transcendent meditation on love and life by 101 year-old master Manoel de Oliveira (Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl, Belle Toujours, I'm Going Home, The Convent). Adapted from a screenplay he first wrote over a half-century ago, Oliveira's new film is a magical tale of an impossible love. Late one night, a young photographer named Isaac (Ricardo Trêpa, the director's grandson and frequent collaborator), is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last portrait of their daughter, Angelica (Pilar López de Ayala/In the City of Sylvia), a beautiful new bride who has mysteriously passed away. Arriving at their estate, Isaac is struck by Angelica's beauty, but when he looks through his lens, the young woman appears to come to life. From that moment, Isaac will be haunted by Angelica day and night.
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