Mountain Cinema Club: Foreign Films & Select Films

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Fall 2002
Wednesday
Sept. 8
- Lantana Australia
A dramatic thriller. The characters in this captivating film are perched precisely at life's midpoint when they are making choices that will define them and haunt them the rest of their lives. Betrayalk has consequences and integrity is rewarded.
In English
Wednesday
Oct. 2
- Italian for Beginners Denmark
A tender comedy. The lives of six slightly lost souls intertwine when they take an introductory class in Italian at a local Copenhagen community center.
In Danish, subtitled
Wednesday
Oct.16
- Nine Queens Argentian
A clever con man comedy. A pair of small-time Buenos Aires swindlers get a chance for an unexpected windfall in the form of a sheet of nine rare stamps.
In Spanish, subtitled
Wednesday
Nov. 6
- Monsoon Wedding India
A romantic drama. An engaging sense of life in an extended middle-class Indian family preparing for a Punjabi wedding in Delhi, trying to find a balance between tradition and modernity. Entertaining music and dance of India's "Bollywood" style.
In English with some Hindi and Punjabi, subtitles
Wednesday
Nov. 20
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Beijing Bicycle China
A drama of a young Chinese man from the countryside who finds a job as a bike messenger. One day his bicycle is stolen.
In Mandarin, subtitled

Wednesday
Dec. 4
- Bread and Tulips Italy
A comedy/drama about a 40 year old Italian housewife who misses her bus her family is on, heading for a beach vacation. she decides, rather than catch the next bus to join them, that she will go to explore the wonders of Venice.
In Italian, subtitled