Image: Yordanos Shiferaw in Capernaum
We’re screening two movies this week:Capernaum and They Shall Not Grow Old. Scroll down for information about They Shall Not Grow Old.
New York Times Critic’s Pick, Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
CAPERNAUM
Directed by Nadine Labaki | In Arabic and Amharic, with English subtitles
Starring Zain al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, and
Boluwatife Treasure Bankole
126 min | Drama | 2018
March 25–28
| MON | No showing | ||
| TUE | 7:30 | ||
| WED | 4:30 | ||
| THU | 2:00 | ||
About the Film
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum (“Chaos”) tells the story of Zain (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the “crime” of giving him life.
Capernaum follows Zain, a gutsy streetwise child as he flees his negligent parents, survives through his wits on the streets, takes care of Ethiopian refugee Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw) and her baby son, Yonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole), being jailed for a crime, and finally, seeks justice in a courtroom.
Capernaum was made with a cast of non-professionals playing characters whose lives closely parallel their own. Following her script, Labaki placed her performers in scenes and asked them to react spontaneously with their own words and gestures. When the non-actors’s instincts diverged from the written script, Labaki adapted the screenplay to follow them.
While steeped in the quiet routines of ordinary people, Capernaum is a film with an expansive palette: without warning it can ignite with emotional intensity, surprise with unexpected tenderness, and inspire with flashes of poetic imagery.
Although it is set in the depths of a society’s systematic inhumanity,Capernaum is ultimately a hopeful film that stirs the heart as deeply as it cries out for action.
THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD
Directed by Peter Jackson | In English
99 min | Documentary/History/War | 2019
March 25–28
| MON | No showing | ||
| TUE | 2:00 | ||
| WED | 7:30 | ||
| THU | 7:30 | ||
About the Film
On the centenary of the end of First World War, Academy Award-winner Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) presents the world premiere of an extraordinary new work showing the Great War as you have never seen it.
Using state of the art technology to restore original archival footage which is more than a 100-years old, Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell this story: the men who were there. Driven by a personal interest in the First World War, Jackson set out to bring to life the day-to-day experience of its soldiers. After months immersed in the BBC and Imperial War Museums’ archives, narratives and strategies on how to tell this story began to emerge for Jackson. Using the voices of the men involved, the film explores the reality of war on the front line; their attitudes to the conflict; how they ate; slept and formed friendships, as well what their lives were like away from the trenches during their periods of downtime.
Jackson and his team have used cutting edge techniques to make the images of a hundred years ago appear as if they were shot yesterday. The transformation from black and white footage to colourised footage can be seen throughout the film revealing never before seen details. Reaching into the mists of time, Jackson aims to give these men voices, investigate the hopes and fears of the veterans, the humility and humanity that represented a generation changed forever by a global war.
—Warner Bros. Pictures