April 23, 2008
Cine Las Americas Daily Schedule: Wednesday
Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Regal Metropolitan 14, 4pm
All audiences
Adapted from João Guimarães Rosa’s novel Primeiras Estórias (Early Stories), A terceira margem do rio interweaves five short stories, including a fantastic tale about a little girl that works miracles, and a man who leaves his family to live on a canoe, never to touch land again. - JCRR, Cine Las Americas
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Director: Heitor Dahlia
Regal Metropolitan 14, 6pm
Mature audiences
To the desperate customers of his São Paulo pawn shop, Lourenço provides an opportunity for a mutually beneficial transaction. But to Lourenço, the world is a place in which people, like unwanted objects, are all for sale. The human catalogue that passes through his shop merely provides fodder for his perverse power games: "the bride", "the gramophone man," or "the addict.” However, strange circumstances and some dubious plumbing lead Lourenço to unexpectedly confront the very characters he believed to be his pawns. He is soon forced to make use of a currency that he has put aside for a long time: affection.
Director: Pavel Giroud
Regal Metropolitan 14, 8pm
Mature audiences
La edad de la peseta – a common Cuban phrase that refers to the period right before entering adolescence – is a quirky, surprising, coming-of-age film. Set in Havana in 1958, on eve of the triumph of the Revolution, ten-year-old Samuel has just arrived in town with his recently divorced mother. They take up residence in the house of his eccentric grandmother Violeta, and Samuel is introduced to a new, mysterious world where he finds himself an adult in comparison to his childlike mother.
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Director: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 9:45pm
All audiences
Set in 1568 when several European countries were competing to control Brazil, a French explorer is captured by native Tupinambas. He will then live among them for eight months before he is to be ceremoniously killed and eaten. Quick zooms and long and medium shots contribute to the film’s documentary feel. Set in the distant past, the film is an allegorical reference to the evictions of indigenous tribes from their native land in modern-day Brazil. - JCRR, Cine Las Americas
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