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This year’s Cannes Film Festival is about a month\u00a0away, and the first “Official Selection”\u00a0titles will be announced next week. In the\u00a0meantime, many of last year’s highlights are still making their way to American screens, and New<\/span> Plaza<\/span> Cinema<\/span> is adding a pair of them to this week’s lineup.<\/div>\n
The Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have in the past quarter-century built\u00a0a formidable body of work, with such modern neo-realist classics as La Promesse, Rosetta, L’Enfant,<\/em> and The Kid with a Bike<\/em>. In her NY Times<\/em> Critic’s Pick review, Manohla Dargis rhapsodizes about their latest,\u00a0 which covers familiar\u00a0territory:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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“…like most of their films, it is a suspense thriller about moral conscience, one that takes place in and around a gray, Belgian city. There, two young African migrants are struggling to make a home in a world in which nearly every human exchange is transactional and carries the threat of betrayal.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And no less a world-class cineaste than Martin Scorsese recently wrote,\u00a0“Tori & Lokita <\/strong>is one of the most devastating cinematic<\/span> experiences I’ve had in a long time. I’ve always admired the way that the Dardennes brothers make movies<\/span> – their mastery is inseparable from their spiritual and ethical commitment to their characters, trying to make their way through an\u00a0unforgiving world.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After an ongoing, two-month run downtown (and an appearance on the Oscar International Film “shortlist”) we’re also bringing the acclaimed Return to Seoul <\/em><\/strong>to the Upper West Side. In another “Critic’s Pick,”\u00a0the NYT’s <\/em>Amy Nicholson\u00a0described it as:<\/div>\n
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“a\u00a0startling and uneasy wonder, a film that feels like a beautiful sketch of a tornado headed directly toward your house. The first-time actor Park Ji-Min delivers a full-bodied performance as Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique, a reckless 25-year-old adoptee born in South Korea and raised in Paris who books a flight to her birthplace on a whim.”\u00a0Her return launches a years-long reckoning with both blood relatives and the many men she connects with – in encounters hard and wild – along the way.<\/p>\n

By popular demand we’re giving final screenings to the 1970s French classics The Sorrow and the Pity<\/em><\/strong>, and Francois Truffaut’s transcendent Day For Night<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0augmented by our long-running Turn Every Page, The Quiet Girl,<\/em><\/strong> Ken Loach’s penetrating documentary The Spirit of ’45<\/strong><\/em> and in the final two weeks of its historic run here, Bill Nighy in Living<\/strong><\/em>, in an open-captioned edition.<\/p>\n

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Gary Palmucci, Film Curator
New<\/span> Plaza<\/span> Cinema<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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