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THEN SHE FOUND ME
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United States. 2008. Directed by Helen Hunt.
(100 mins.) Rated R.

"Hunt's performance is terrific and far more nuanced than her Oscar-winning turn in As Good as It Gets. As an actress, she helps make her director look very good indeed." - Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly



"Helen Hunt makes an exceptionally deft and self-assured debut as a multi-hyphenate with THEN SHE FOUND ME, a smart, subtle and seriously funny dramedy bound to find favor with sophisticated audiences. In the lead role of April Epner, a 39-year-old New York schoolteacher who's painfully aware of her ticking biological time clock, Hunt is ambivalent about her experiences as an adopted child, despite her regard for her ailing adoptive mother (Lynn Cohen), but that makes her even more eager, if not desperate, to have a child of her own. Unfortunately, April's parenting plans are cut short when Ben (Matthew Broderick), her boyishly immature husband of a few months, decides their marriage was 'a mistake.' Frank (Colin Firth), a recently divorced father of one of April's students, offers brutally pragmatic advice : 'Don't do anything until you've slept. Don't let anybody try to set you up with anyone. But just when April's life is returning to an even keel, unexpected events turn her world topsy-turvy, leaving April all the more emotionally vulnerable -- and, at the same time, warily skeptical -- when brassy, self-absorbed Bernice (Bette Milder), a local TV talkshow host, introduces herself to April and says she's her biological mother. Working from a novel by Elinor Lipman, which she adapted with co-scripters Alice Arlen and Victor Levin, Hunt prioritizes consistency of tone and appropriateness of scale, even while maneuvering through vertiginous mood swings. As a filmmaker, Hunt makes wise choices with a consistency that bespeaks of skill and sensitivity. Better still, she avoids predictability. That Bernice remains amusing and engaging is a tribute to Midler's shrewd underplaying of a character that could come off as a caricature. The same sort of emotional truth resounds in Firth's portrayal of sweet-natured fellow who's genuinely startling in his ferocious anger and deep anguish when he feels he has been betrayed. Ben may be the most lightweight character in the mix, but Broderick makes the fellow's Peter Pan Syndrome oddly poignant. Often extremely funny, the comedy always remains rooted in sharply and warmly observed reality." VARIETY



COMING SOON!
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Date & Showtimes to be announced

United States. 2008. Directed by Werner Herzog.
(99 mins.) Rated G.

"Herzog is cinema's poet of the empty spaces." - Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger



"Werner Herzog, who has been making memorable documentaries ever since the 1970s, has dedicated himself more than perhaps any filmmaker alive to the proposition that truth is the new fiction -- a realm not merely of drama but of mystery and enchantment and imaginative power. When Herzog stares at reality, he sees the uncanny. In ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD , he takes his cameras to the most extreme corner of the planet: Antarctica, a place that looks sculpted by some pretty unfriendly gods. It's a subzero dreamscape of spooky, desolate majesty. There, he finds a community of flaked-out scientist-drifters, almost all of whom are still carrying the shaggy renegade spirit of the '70s. For a while, Herzog hangs around a settlement called McMurdo, which is like some industrial mining village. But then he enters the awesome terrain -- the glaciers as high as mountains and as vast (literally) as Texas; the ancient water world that lies beneath the ice. The divers refer to this ocean-with-a-ceiling as a 'cathedral,' and when the movie takes us down there, we can see why. The configurations are like lunar basilicas made of frozen blasts of crystal. The stunning images aren't enough for Herzog, though. He wants us to see how these quirky researchers, in their lust to explore, are acting out a drive as primitive as nature: the need to break away from the world in order to find it." - Entertainment Weekly

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