between two worlds ( 2009 film )
between two worlds is quite a different film from the thing from another world .
director vimukthi jayasundara attends the' between two worlds' premiere held at the amc 3 during the 2009 toronto international film festival on september 15, 2009 in toronto, canada .
programmer victoria moufawad - paul speaks at the' between two worlds' premiere held at the amc 3 during the 2009 toronto international film festival on september 15, 2009 in toronto, canada .
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director vimukthi jayasundara attends the' between two worlds' premiere held at the ...
director vimukthi jayasundara and tiff programmer victoria moufawad - paul attend the' between two worlds' premiere held at the amc 3 during the 2009 toronto international film festival on september 15, 2009 in toronto, canada .
programmer victoria moufawad - paul speaks at the' between two worlds' premiere held ...
the characters in between two worlds try to unravel the mystery of how they ended up together on a ship at sea .
between two worlds will be screening as part of the south asian international film festival on sunday, october 31, at 10: 00pm. you can find further details here .
venice - - striking images and the suggestion that life is a series of random events that might be repeated make
between two worlds
intriguing .
riven with violence and haunted by the dead and the missing, “between two worlds” is a hallucinatory experience. the worlds in question could be a number of things — heaven and hell, peace and war, past and present; but in a film this vivid and this oblique, the cumulative thrust of the images is what pulls us through .
i attended the north american premiere of
between two worlds
at the 2009 toronto international film festival. i love foreign films and sri lanka is about as exotic as it gets, so i certainly wasn' t expecting a popcorn movie. still, this one is a real puzzle which i never quite solved. the film is more an examination of the consequences of war than anything else - - in this case the bloody decades - long civil war in sri lanka. several story lines that don' t necessarily intersect give the viewer plenty to ponder. but the strength of
between two worlds
is its lush cinematography. the stark contrast between the gorgeous landscape and the brutality being inflicted by man against man is disturbing .
landscape and memory flow one from the other in vimukthi jayasundara’s inscrutable sophomore feature, “between two worlds. ” more accessible than his almost perversely downbeat debut, “the forsaken land, ” “world’s” boasts stunning lensing, a painter’s eye for unexpected compositions and an accomplished feel for ambient sound, but jayasundara’s particular vision, reminiscent of the apichatpong weerasethakul school, remains opaque. champions will be vocal, though the film, caught between the worlds of the art gallery and the arthouse, will likely remain stuck in festival no - man’s land .
eventually, ann realizes that she has seen these people before. they were the ones in the vehicle hit by the bomb. suddenly both she and henry remember that they were in the process of dying just moments earlier. they are on a ship between two worlds – sailing to heaven and to hell .
vimukthi jayasundara' s between two worlds is a mystical film. i say this without value added to the word
mystical .
this sri lankan production isa movie of mysticism and of the primal, but i' l l be damned if i could tell you what it' s about. the festival notes for the movie seem to struggle with the same problem :
i thought this was a fine film. apparently it is based on a 1924 play titled outward bound, which starred leslie howard. it was filmed in 1930. in the original play and film version, the audience did not know the passengers were dead until the end of the performance. leonard maltin in his movie guide liked outward bound better than between two worlds. i will have to be on the lookout for that one now .
mireille enos — you may recognize her voice from shows like
big love ,
the catch
and
the killing
— reads us jones' essay
a child of two worlds .
landscape and memory flow one from the other in vimukthi jayasundara’s inscrutable sophomore feature, “between two worlds. ” more accessible than his almost perversely downbeat debut, “the forsaken land, ” “world’s” boasts stunning lensing, a painter’s eye for unexpected compositions and an accomplished feel for ambient sound, but jayasundara’s particular vision, reminiscent of the apichatpong weerasethakul school, [ … ]
the next morning i got up and as i scanned the channel guides, i ran across this film beyond two worlds. i read the brief synopsis and looked at the cast. i was sold on it. i was already five minutes into the broadcast, but i figured i could catch up with it pretty fast .
like mr. jayasundara’s 2005 feature, “the forsaken land, ” “between two worlds” is deeply embedded in sri lanka’s devastating civil war and the societal fissures that have resulted. elements of folklore, myth and political symbolism speckle the story (in one scene a man in a mickey mouse mask is mercilessly beaten in the middle of a street strewn with smashed television sets), and marauding rebels prowl on the margins .
much of the movie is like this - - elliptical to the point of frustration. this world and this man never cohere into anything other than pieces of an unfinished myth, told by two bored fishermen by the sea. it' s beautiful to look at - - at times, stunningly so. but there are so many barriers between the audience and the film that it' s unclear what the intent was. looking back at my experience watching it, i' m not sure if that' s simply an observation or a criticism given how unclear the filmmaker' s goals were in the making of this movie. each movie should be judged based what it set out to do, but i' m not sure i know what the road map was for between two worlds .
hearing is believing the star of this documentary is rachel flowers, who was born prematurely and went blind, but learned to play music and grew into a vibrant performer. the film follows two years in her family’s life .
production: les films hatari, unlimited, arte france cinema, film council prods. sri lanka
bronx gothic andrew rossi (“page one: inside the new york times”) directs this film version of okwui okpokwasili’s one - woman show — a dance and performance piece inspired by her upbringing in the bronx and centered on the rivalry between two girls on the cusp of adolescence. reviewing a production in 2014, rachel saltz, writing in the times, called ms. okpokwasili “a magnetic performer. ”
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in 2009, enos returned to the stage starring opposite annette bening, david arquette and julian sands in joanna murray - smith’s comedy
the female of the species
at the geffen playhouse. “mireille enos nearly steals the show as bening’s wonderfully distraught daughter, ” touted the hollywood reporter .
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ascent experience mount fuji — through a selection of 4, 000 photographs snapped over 150 years. the dutch artist fiona tan has built this experimental film out of those stills. screenings at film forum in new york will be free .
unquestionably, the beauty of “between two worlds” lies in its parts rather than as a whole. jayasundara favors camera movements that mimic a slow - moving predator keeping a respectful distance, taking in the gorgeous, green - swathed mountains and lush tropical grasses. many of his images are striking and unexpected, such as a scene in which a choreographed group of men toss buckets of water out of the river in synchronized swoops of their arms. the soundscape reflects the living memory exuded from the soil, while deep cello bows and elongated bass notes add mournful, elegiac layers .
handsome devil two roommates (fionn o’shea and nicholas galitzine), outcasts for different reasons, begin to warm to each other at a rugby - obsessed irish boarding school .
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all eyez on me the contours and contradictions of the life of the rapper tupac shakur (demetrius shipp jr. , in his first movie) are recounted in a biopic scheduled to be released on his birthday. danai gurira plays tupac’s mother, a black panther, and jamal woolard is biggie smalls, a. k. a. the notorious b. i. g. , whom he played in the 2009 film “notorious. ” benny boom directed .
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the survivalist a standout at the 2015 tribeca film festival, stephen fingleton’s debut feature is a terse portrait of life in a postapocalyptic wood. martin mccann is the title character, who lives alone and fends off all comers until two women (mia goth and olwen fouéré) turn up at his doorstep .
king arthur: legend of the sword after two revisionist takes on sherlock holmes, the director guy ritchie aims to show off the hipper side of king arthur, a character whose last major reboot was in a 2004 antoine fuqua film. an irreverent charlie hunnam plays the title role; jude law is the pretender to arthur’s rightful throne .
score: a film music documentary going behind the scenes of how film scores are composed, this portrait of the craft features some of the most familiar “music by” credits in the business, including hans zimmer, john williams, danny elfman, quincy jones, rachel portman and thomas newman .
ripped after sampling a potent strain of marijuana said to be developed by the c. i. a. , two stoners (faizon love and russell peters) awaken 30 years later, in 2016 .
the layover stranded at the st. louis airport after a flight diversion, two friends (alexandra daddario and kate upton) vie for the affections of the same man (matt barr). william h. macy, who is also in the film, directs this comedy from a script by david hornsby (“it’s always sunny in philadelphia”) and lance krall .
camera obscura suffering from post - traumatic stress disorder, a war photographer begins to see real premonitions of deaths in his pictures. it’s a horror film, naturally .
brave new jersey the residents of a small town in new jersey tune into orson welles’s 1938 “war of the worlds” broadcast — and like many who heard it live, they don’t realize that it’s theater. the fun cast includes anna camp, heather burns, dan bakkedahl and raymond j. barry .
imagine a map of the world... zoom in on the horn of africa. in between eritrea, ethiopia and somalia lies the country of djibouti. this small country has become the center of rachel pieh jones' world, one that looks nothing like her minnesota roots .
this film from sri lanka combines some stunning cinematography and imagery to tell a story about the effects of the civil war that has ravaged the country. one young man, journeys from city to country to return to his home, encountering along the way an array of people, caught up in the situation. there is a sparse use of dialogue throughout and the film' s narrative unfortunately is broken throughout, making it at times difficult to know what is happening. who was the young asian girl in the white van for instance, is never explained and why the main character keeps trying to kiss her. it is one of many odd scenes in the film, a film that…
lucky lucky, played by the film’s writer and director, bari king, is an undocumented immigrant who gets enmeshed in a crime web and has to fight his way out .
past life in 1977, two israeli sisters (nelly tagar and joy rieger) are prompted to unravel their seemingly upright father’s past actions in holocaust - era poland. avi nesher, of the much lighter “the matchmaker” (2012), directs .
three sri lankan filmmakers renowned for their internationally acclaimed films based on the sri lankan civil war, join in to make one film to express their views on post - war reality .
in 2014, enos starred opposite ryan reynolds in the psychological thriller
the captive ,
directed by atom egoyan, which premiered at the cannes film festival. in addition, she had two other films released that year including
if i stay for mgm ,
opposite chole moretz, based on the best - selling young adult novel, as well as
sabotage ,
directed by david ayer, starring sam worthington, terrence howard and arnold schwarzenegger .
hounds of love it’s not a tribute to the kate bush album of the same title, but an australian thriller about a young woman (ashleigh cummings) who’s abducted by a serial - killer couple (emma booth and stephen curry). the news media in perth have noted similarities between the plot and a real - life case .
the mummy want to feel old? tom cruise is now beginning his fourth decade as an action star. want to feel a bit younger? meet his new nemesis, a princess (sofia boutella) who has been mummified since ancient egypt, in the latest reboot of a concept that universal pictures has dined off since the boris karloff original in 1932. annabelle wallis, russell crowe and jake johnson co - star. alex kurtzman (a screenwriter on two “star trek” movies, two “transformers, ” one “amazing spider - man” and one “mission: impossible”) directs .
jesús after committing an assault, a teenager (nicolás durán) in santiago is forced to confront his father (alejandro goic) in a film inspired by a real - life hate crime in chile in 2012 .
the house two parents (amy poehler and will ferrell), unable to afford college tuition for their daughter (ryan simpkins), turn their home into a casino. does what happens in the rec room stay in the rec room? with allison tolman from “fargo” season 1 and jason mantzoukas .
dean demetri martin, a former fixture of “the daily show, ” directed, wrote and stars in this film, playing an illustrator who, after his mother’s death, works through a complicated relationship with his father (kevin kline). from last year’s tribeca film festival, mike hale wrote in the new york times that mr. martin “delivers a winning combination of winsomeness and rue. ” gillian jacobs and mary steenburgen also star .
production: a les film hatari, unlimited, arte france cinema (france) / film council prods. sri lanka, anura silva (sri lanka) production, in association with poly - son post production, le fresnoy, 24 frames. (international sales: artscope, paris .) produced by michel klein, philippe avril. co - producers, michel reilhac, chandana aluthge, anura silva. directed, written by vimukthi jayasundara .
dawson city: frozen time in the silent era, the gold rush town of dawson city in the yukon was the last stop on the film - shipping circuit. the creative solutions used to dispose of flammable nitrate stock resulted in the inadvertent preservation of 500 films — forgotten reels were excavated in the 1970s. bill morrison (the found - footage collage “decasia”) uses those clips to tell a story that interweaves film history and a sociological history of dawson .
a buddhist monk on a spiritual quest. a student trying to test his limits. an organ dealer growing his business. a surgeon who heals by day and rapes women at night. the film interweaves... see full summary »
war for the planet of the apes the events of “dawn of the planet of the apes” (2014) didn’t exactly restore harmony between humans and their evolutionary relatives. it’s time for war, and fearsome leaders head both species’ armies. on the ape side, caesar (andy serkis). on the human side, the colonel (woody harrelson). matt reeves, who did standout work in the previous installment, directed .
the book of henry the director colin trevorrow takes a break between franchises — “jurassic world” and “star wars: episode ix” — with a drama about an 11 - year - old genius (jaeden lieberher) who, with his mother (naomi watts), sets out to rescue the girl next door (maddie ziegler), who seems to be abused by her stepfather (dean norris). sarah silverman and jacob tremblay also star .
harmonium a prizewinner at cannes, koji fukada’s film captures the ripple effects on one family after the father (kanji furutachi) invites an acquaintance (tadanobu asano), a recent ex - convict, to work with him in the garage next to his home .
megan leavey gabriela cowperthwaite (the sea world exposé “blackfish”) moves into dramatized features with this life - inspired movie about a marine corporal (kate mara) and the two tours of duty she did with a bomb - sniffing dog named rex. they were injured in an explosion and recuperated together. edie falco, ramón rodríguez and common are also in the cast .
captain underpants: the first epic movie after hypnotizing their school’s principal, two prankster students inadvertently turn him into captain underpants, the jockey - wearing superhero of the comics they’ve written. this animated feature is based on the long - running children’s book series by dav pilkey. kevin hart, ed helms, thomas middleditch, jordan peele and kristen schaal supply some of the voices .
born to an american father and french mother, enos was raised in houston where she attended schools for the dramatic arts. while studying acting during her third year at brigham young university, she was invited to join a two - month project at the classic stage company in new york city. she bought a one - way bus pass and the rest, as they say, is history .
what all of it adds up to is left to the viewer, but there' s no question that while some bits are simply puzzling, there are many arresting episodes and the film echoes as a plaintive call for attention to the ongoing plight of the young people of sri lanka .
lemon this year’s designated sundance squirm comedy stars brett gelman (who wrote the script with his wife, the film’s director, janicza bravo) as a 40 - year - old drama teacher who alienates everyone around him. judy greer, michael cera and gillian jacobs endure his disagreeable behavior .
moscow never sleeps an irish filmmaker, johnny o’reilly, pays tribute to his adopted city of moscow with this ensemble film. the trailer at least paints a much sunnier view of the city than russian imports usually do. aleksey serebryakov (the protagonist of “leviathan”) is in the large cast .
beatriz at dinner a mexican massage therapist and healer (salma hayek) and a billionaire hotel owner (john lithgow) butt heads at a dinner party. this new collaboration between the director miguel arteta and the screenwriter mike white (who previously worked together on “chuck & buck” and “the good girl”) had more than a few critics at sundance sensing a commentary on donald j. trump. connie britton, david warshofsky, amy landecker and chloë sevigny are among the mortified faces around the table .
the woman who left ten years ago, the filipino director lav diaz was a forbidding figure, even among extreme cinephiles. at film festivals they would ask one another in hushed tones whether they really planned to see his nine - hour “death in the land of encantos. ” lately, mr. diaz seems to have widened his appeal, earning acclaim for his dostoyevsky - inspired “norte, the end of history” and for this new drama, which won the golden lion at the venice film festival in 2016. at nearly four hours, it is also one of mr. diaz’s shortest films .
awakening the zodiac shane west and leslie bibb play a couple who find a 40 - year - old film reel that they believe was shot by the zodiac killer in california. they try to sleuth him out. this displeases the zodiac killer, who is probably a member of aarp by now .
afterimage the polish director andrzej wajda, who died at 90 in october, grappled one last time with his country’s history in his final film, a portrait of the painter wladyslaw strzeminski (boguslaw linda), who pushed back against the postwar communist regime’s mandates for art and sacrificed his career as a result .
the wall in iraq, two american soldiers (aaron taylor - johnson and john cena) are trapped by an iraqi sniper. behind a crumbling wall, mr. taylor - johnson maintains radio contact with the man who almost — almost — has him in his sights. we’ll soon find out whether doug liman, the director of “the bourne identity” and “edge of tomorrow, ” is capable of drawing out suspense on a tighter scale .
unlocked in an espionage thriller from michael apted, noomi rapace plays a c. i. a. agent who is on the run and working to stop a terrorist attack in london. orlando bloom, michael douglas, toni collette and john malkovich are also in the film, but who knows whose side they’re on ?
manifesto those who can’t get enough of cate blanchett will find her here playing 13 roles. the words the characters recite are drawn from more than 50 manifestoes — most of them artistic declarations from the 20th century. the film was shown in installation form at the park avenue armory in december and january before heading to sundance .
in transit a founding figure of the direct - cinema movement, albert maysles died in 2015, shortly before this film’s premiere. his last feature observes the passengers on amtrak’s empire builder route, which connects chicago and the pacific northwest. mr. maysles directed with lynn true, nelson walker, ben wu and david usui .
a family man a cutthroat headhunter (gerard butler) who’s competing with a colleague (alison brie) for a promotion finds his ambitions threatened when his son receives a cancer diagnosis. not to be confused with the brett ratner film “the family man, ” this drama also stars gretchen mol, willem dafoe and alfred molina .
a bass note of blood and toxicity — adultery and rape, dead cows and poisoned water — drives the film’s stirring score (by lakshman joseph de saram) and pulses beneath its lush canopy of trees. in this land, part dream and part nightmare, the scythed bodies of men in the undergrowth tell their own tale .
vincent - n - roxxy in an update of old noir themes, “vincent - n - roxxy” casts emile hirsch and zoë kravitz as a couple whom circumstances bring together and send on the lam. romance follows to some degree, but word from last year’s tribeca film festival suggests that violence dominates. zoey deutch co - stars .
realive the spanish director mateo gil (who has collaborated with alejandro amenábar on scripts for films like “open your eyes”) wrote and directed this science - fiction film about a man (tom hughes) with a terminal disease who is cryogenically frozen and then awakened in 2084 after 60 years of limbo. charlotte le bon and oona chaplin co - star .
this is borne out by later scenes which, at least in part, mirror elements from the story, but don' t really resolve into any kind of theme. the constant report of gunfire can be heard in the distance, and the man seems to be on the run from it, but it' s not clear if he thinks he' s being pursued of if he' s just afraid. he commits two acts of violence - - murder - - that we later see never happened .
the commune you wouldn’t know it from the high - society recriminations in his dogma 95 landmark, “the celebration, ” but the danish director thomas vinterberg was raised in a commune. although this 1970s - set film isn’t a memoir, it draws on that experience. trine dyrholm and ulrich thomsen play a couple who decide to start their own group - living arrangement .
diary of a wimpy kid: the long haul the wimpy kid grew up, so hollywood found a new one. in the fourth film based on jeff kinney’s popular books, greg (now jason ian drucker) goes on a family road trip. alicia silverstone and tom everett scott, also on their first outings in the wimpy - verse, play his parents .
the exception a nazi soldier (jai courtney) assigned to look after the exiled kaiser wilhelm ii (christopher plummer) has an affair with a maid (lily james) who is both jewish and a spy. eddie marsan (as himmler) and janet mcteer add to the intrigue. the director is david leveaux, a multiple tony nominee making his first film .
dunkirk christopher nolan trades the cerebral for the visceral with this epic - scale restaging of the 1940 military actions in dunkirk, france, which ended with the evacuation of more than 300, 000 allied troops from the french port town but endured as a kind of rallying cry for the british. the cast includes kenneth branagh, cillian murphy, mark rylance, tom hardy, fionn whitehead and, in his film acting debut, harry styles, formerly of one direction. mr. nolan, perhaps hollywood’s most outspoken advocate for the continued use of celluloid, shot the movie in a mixture of 70 - millimeter imax and 65 - millimeter, the gold standards for movies designed to be seen big. it will show in select theaters on film .
written and directed by vimukthi jayasundara; director of photography, channa deshapriya; edited by gisèle rapp - meichler; music by lakshman joseph de saram; art direction by lal harendranath; produced by michel klein and philippe avril; released by artscope. at the roy and niuta titus theaters, museum of modern art. in sinhalese, with english subtitles. this film is not rated .
churchill brian cox may sound like a more natural fit for winston churchill than john lithgow did in “the crown, ” but can you picture john slattery (roger sterling from “mad men”) as dwight d. eisenhower? both mr. cox and mr. slattery, plus miranda richardson as clementine churchill, play the famous figures in a film about the road to d - day .
stefan zweig: farewell to europe the work of the austrian writer stefan zweig has inspired many movies (including “letter from an unknown woman” and “the grand budapest hotel”). so maybe it was inevitable that he would get a biopic of his own. this film, by maria schrader, focuses on the years 1936 to 1942, when zweig (josef hader) lived in exile overseas .
wind river taylor sheridan, the screenwriter of “sicario” and “hell or high water, ” directs this murder mystery set on a remote, mountainous reservation in wyoming. jeremy renner is a game tracker who teams up with an ill - prepared (yet consistently underestimated) f. b. i. agent (elizabeth olsen, in her second film of the week) to find out whodunit .
fallen there are no more “twilight” books to adapt, but hollywood’s hunger for supernatural young - adult romances is eternal. so here is the first film from lauren kate’s best - selling series about a girl at a reform school (hermione corfield) who is watched over by a hunky angel (jeremy irvine). lola kirke also stars. scott hicks (who once made “shine”) directs .
alien: covenant face huggers! bloodthirsty anamorphic - melon - headed aliens! katherine waterston in a very strange hairdo! ridley scott again revisits the franchise that may be his most lasting legacy, with an entry set sometime after the events in “prometheus” (2012) but before those in “alien” (1979). along with ms. waterston, billy crudup, amy seimetz, demián bichir, danny mcbride and carmen ejogo are among the space colonists in for a rude surprise, with michael fassbender returning from “prometheus” as an android (or two) .
a ghost story the director david lowery returns to indies after “pete’s dragon” with a film that’s more readily experienced than described; perhaps it’s best just to say that critics were entranced at sundance. rooney mara and casey affleck (both from his “ain’t them bodies saints”) play a couple. there is a ghost (a sheet with cutout eyes) and a lengthy shot in which ms. mara eats almost a whole pie .
wonder woman after an appearance in “batman v superman: dawn of justice, ” in 2016, that was effectively a trailer within a film, wonder woman (gal gadot) gets a long - teased movie of her own. patty jenkins (“monster”) directs this origin story, which finds the superheroine leaving her life as an amazon princess to fight in world war i. chris pine plays the pilot who rouses her to action .
the ornithologist the portuguese director joão pedro rodrigues (“to die like a man”) continues to defy classification with this story of a bird - watcher (paul hamy) who sets off downstream on an isolated river and, on his journey, encounters increasingly strange company. manohla dargis called the movie, inspired by the story of st. anthony, “the single most delightful and narratively adventurous movie i saw at toronto” during its film festival .
the last face sean penn directs this moony global wake - up call, which came in for a historic drubbing at the 2016 cannes film festival. (even the opening title card — which needed a copy editor — was mocked .) charlize theron and javier bardem star as the planet’s best - looking humanitarian aide workers, who have a steamy affair against a backdrop of war and strife in sierra leone, south sudan and liberia .
annabelle: creation a prequel to a spinoff: “annabelle” (2014) was an offshoot of “the conjuring” (2013), and this film concerns events before “annabelle, ” with presumably no connection to “the conjuring 2” (2016). got it? “annabelle: creation” tells the story of how one evil doll came to haunt so many movies. talitha bateman, anthony lapaglia and miranda otto star. david f. sandberg (“lights out”) directs .
gotti john gotti, the crime boss and “first media don, ” was already the focus of a 1996 tv movie, in which he was played by armand assante. in this theatrical film, which covers 30 years in his life, john travolta assumes impersonation duties, as he did for robert shapiro. mr. travolta’s wife, kelly preston, plays gotti’s. the screenwriters are lem dobbs (“the limey”) and the character actor leo rossi .
i really enjoy doing these columns and seeing the variety of films that i have enjoyed or, in some cases, not enjoyed. every now and again i stumble across a film that i have never heard of but catches my interest. this week i had intended to review the thing from another world and give some background story about it and me. but after watching it the other night, i decided to go to sleep rather than immediately put my thoughts down on the computer .
i am so glad i did. first let’s look at the cast. the leads are paul henreid as henry bergner and eleanor parker as his wife anne. that’s a pretty decent start. i saw john garfield listed as tom prior, edmund gwenn as scrubby the steward, and sydney greenstreet as tim thompson. the pairing of henreid and greenstreet just a year after casablanca got my interest up. and there was a score from eric wolfgang korngold, which immediately makes any film worth watching .
the synopsis is honest: an unnamed man (kaushalaya fernando) does fall from the sky into the sea, only climb a wall and walk into the middle of some kind of urban civil war. the first 20 minutes or so are almost completely without dialog - - just a series of events, leading to the man getting a ride from the city into the countryside. the man is quiet, for the most part, and doesn' t seem to have any clearly definable emotions. he wanders for a bit before an interlude with two fishermen introduce us to the story of a long - lost prince seeking his throne, and it' s implied that this is who our lead might be .
abacus: small enough to jail steve james (“hoop dreams”) follows the legal travails of abacus federal savings bank, a pillar of the immigrant community in chinatown, that was charged in 2012 with mortgage fraud. (it was acquitted in 2015 .) although there’s a newsworthy hook — the film suggests that abacus was a scapegoat for larger banks after the financial crisis — the movie is primarily an affectionate look at the sung family, which runs the bank, and its resolve in the face of adversity .
soon, she will reprise her role as karin lane, the female lead opposite brad pitt, in the sequel to the blockbuster hit
world war z .
in addition, she has completed three indie feature films including
you were never here ,
a thriller in which she stars opposite sam shepard ,
behold my heart ,
opposite marisa tomei, charlie plummer and timothy olyphant, and
katie says goodbye
opposite olivia cooke, jim belushi, christopher abbott and mary steenburgen, which premiered at the toronto film festival in september .
it comes at night reviewing the domestic - discord drama “krisha, ” the debut feature of trey edward shults, last year, manohla dargis wrote that the film’s opening shot made it feel like a horror movie. mr. shults makes good on that promise with his second feature — an actual horror movie, in which a patriarch (joel edgerton), determined to protect his wife and son from a threat outside, must decide what to do about another family that comes a - knockin’. with riley keough, carmen ejogo and christopher abbott (“james white”) .
in 2013, enos starred opposite colin firth and reese withersoon in the atom egoyan directed
devil' s knot ,
which premiered at the 2013 toronto international film festival. she could also be seen in the warner bros. crime drama
gangster squad ,
for director ruben fleischer, starring josh brolin, ryan gosling, sean penn and emma stone. enos garnered praise for the warmth and emotion she brought to the role. the huffington post proclaimed “some of the best work comes from mireille enos as brolin’s wife…enos has genuine chemistry with not just brolin, but with gosling in their terrific scene together. ”
suddenly they are on a large ship with a group of people, mingling in the bar. they don’t recall how they got there nor does anyone else. the friendly steward helps people with drinks and conversation. the film sort of becomes a grant hotel at sea. you have the business executive mr. lingley (george coulouris), the minister (dennis king), the upper class couple who don’t know why they have to associate with the riffraff (isobel elson and gilbert emory), the journalist (garfield), the actress (faye emerson), the housekeeper (sara allgood) and the sailor (george tobias) .
with no narrative arc, vimukthi jayasundara' s tale of life in sri lanka follows a young man who falls from the sky into the sea, clambers onto the shore and survives dangerous encounters in a city filled with rioting people and then in the countryside where unseen authorities shoot on sight .
cinematographer channa deshapriya and production designer lal harendranath contribute to remarkably enigmatic sequences that might prove winning at festivals and could reach sympathetic international audiences as a cry for help for the young people of strife - torn sri lanka .
the urban scenes are realistic and terrifying: groups of men with clubs descend on anyone found alone, gunfire and explosions are constant, and streets are strewn with the wreckage from mayhem .
people that the young man encounters stay with him for a while but then disappear without explanation and are not heard from again. in the junglelike countryside, he sees incidents that he then learns happened a long time ago and commits acts of violence that prove never to have happened .
he finds a woman who apparently is his sister - in - law, and when she notices he has a damaged eye, she treats it with milk from her breast though she hasn' t given birth. a little boy tends to a wounded bird but then climbs a tree and drops it into a large knothole in the trunk .
when a village' s well is found to be poisoned, all the young men who have been hiding from the guns of the authorities emerge from the forest to bale the water away. the young man joins in, and their movements become a dance and a chant followed by a celebration that ends when armed men on horseback swoop down on them .
landscape and memory flow one from the other in vimukthi jayasundara' s inscrutable sophomore feature .
with: with: thusitha laknath, kaushalya fernando, huang lu. (sinhalese, english dialogue )
an opening montage of striking images, including a wonderful sequence of a man falling from the sky into water, settles into shots of a city laid waste by rioters. rajith (thusitha laknath) repeatedly kicks a man dressed as a mouse, then assists a young woman (huang lu) in getting out of the city. she prefers the pawing of their van driver to rajith’s unsuccessful attempts at molestation, and he’s left to wander the countryside. eventually he meets up with his sister - in - law (kaushalya fernando), who bathes his eyes in her breast milk .
the impossibility of defining rajith’s character is actually refreshing, though thanks to a temporal round - robin, there’s no emotional investment, since no violent act has any lasting consequence except, perhaps, the curse of being repeated for eternity. obviously, traditional narration is not among the helmer’s interests: a story exchanged by a couple of fishermen, about a prince hiding in a tree trunk from the uncles he’s fated to kill, has a seemingly important but ultimately undefinable role, never quite integrating itself with the more interesting concept of the landscape as witness to both wonderful and horrible things .
as a mood poem of sorts on sri lanka, it’s decidedly more complex than “the forsaken land, ” acknowledging the nurturing forces even more than the destructive ones that have wracked the nation for decades .
with: with: thusitha laknath, kaushalya fernando, huang lu. (sinhalese, english dialogue )
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the young man fell from the sky. communication relay burns. flee from the city and its commotion, return to nature. become part of another story. that of the legend of the prince. in the... see more »
the young man fell from the sky. communication relay burns. flee from the city and its commotion, return to nature. become part of another story. that of the legend of the prince. in the hope of a love, hiding behind the hollow in a tree. nothing magic is improbable. what happened yesterday, may happen again tomorrow. written by anonymous
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thusitha laknath' s character wanders a rural sri lankan landscape empty of adult men .
with: thusitha laknath (rajith), kaushalya fernando (kanthi) and huang lu (young chinese girl) .
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[ director vimukthi ] jayasundara' s war is a monster with no end, no present or past, entrapping its victims in a ceaseless loop .
the young man has fallen from the sky. the lines of communication are burned. to flee the city and its tumult, get back to nature. enter into another story. of the legend of the prince. in the hope of a love .
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a young man appears to fall from the sky, rescuing a foreign woman caught up in a violent conflict. the man flees from the city and returns to his village, where he finds both solace in a family member and threats of renewed violence. around him, we see the effects of a longstanding conflict on the people of the village. alongside this enigmatic series of events, is a mythical fable of a prince who took refuge in the hollow of a tree to escape deadly strife .
henry bergner is an austrian pianist turned soldier living in london. his hands are injured and he can no longer play. he and ann want to get to america but are having trouble securing exit visas. (where have i heard something like that before ?) distraught, he leaves the diplomatic office and returns home, where he seals the window and plays his favorite record .
ann has missed henry at the office but sees a group of people getting their documents and leaving. as they leave, there is an air raid and the fleeing car suffers a direct hit. everyone is killed instantly. she returns to their flat to find henry in the act of suicide and refuses to leave him. they drift off .
they realize that none of the others knows what is happening. the steward asks them to let everyone relax and enjoy the ride for the moment and not bring it up their conclusion. but there is tension in the room. prior, the journalist is washed up and unemployed, partly due to a series of articles he did on lingley, who is a capitalist at all costs and could be a president of the i’m for me first party. he gets what he wants no matter what the cost. the reverend is off on a trip to begin a new series of work for the betterment of his church. the actress is hanging with prior, but lingley is making a play. the sailor has just gotten word that he has become a new father. he’s heading home after having three ships torpedoed beneath him.
between two worlds ( sinhalese : ahasin wetei ) , is a 2009 sri lankan-french drama film written and directed by vimukthi jayasundara . it was entered into the main competition at the 66th edition of the venice film festival . 
between two worlds (sinhalese: ahasin wetei), is a 2009 sri lankan-french drama film written and directed by vimukthi jayasundara. it was entered into the main competition at the 66th edition of the venice film festival.
between two worlds (sinhalese: ahasin wetei), is a 2009 sri lankan-french drama film written and directed by vimukthi jayasundara. it was entered into the main competition at the 66th edition of the venice film festival.