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Volver

2008-04-27T06:00:19.084Z

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
Release Date: 26 January 2007 (USA)

Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her husband Paco, who is always drunk. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. The two sisters lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha, their birth village, years ago. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past returns(volver) in a twist of mystery and suspense.

8 Femmes/8 Women

2008-04-26T17:13:41.020Z

Director: Francois Ozon
Writer: Francois Ozon
Studio: Celluloid Dreams
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle B?art

Release: September 20, 2002

One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Could it possibly have been one of his two young daughters? A surprise visit from the victim's chic sister sends the household into a tizzy, encouraging hysterics, exacerbating rivalries, and encompassing musical interludes. Comedic situations arise with the revelations of dark family secrets. Seduction dances with betrayal. The mystery of the female psyche is revealed. There are eight women and each is a suspect. Each has a motive. Each has a secret. Beautiful, tempestuous, intelligent, sensual, and dangerous...one of them is guilty. Which one is it?

Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster!/Yes Nurse, No Nurse!

2008-04-26T17:04:06.019Z

Director: Pieter Kramer
Writers: Harry Bannink (writer)
Frank Houtappels (writer)

Release Date:
23 October 2002 (Belgium)

The film is a cheerful stylized musical comedy a la 8 femmes. Based on a popular Dutch television series, this musical centers on Nurse Klivia (Loes Luca) and the slightly batty residents of her rest home. Klivia is hounded by nasty neighbor Boordevol (Paul R. Kooij), who wants to repossess the rest home. Things really heat up when Klivia takes in the young burglar Gerrit (Waldemar Torenstra). Gerrit has eyes for Klivia's daughter (Tjitske Reidinga), and when Boordevol is robbed, Gerrit is the main suspect.

La Doublure/The Valet

2008-04-26T16:43:47.014Z

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Release: April 20, 2007
Director: Francis Veber
Writer: Francis Veber
Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry

A Parisian valet loves a woman who rejects him: she's in debt to open a bookshop, and he's not her ideal man. A billionaire two-times his wealthy wife with his beautiful mistress, a young supermodel. To draw the paparazzi and his wife off the trail of adultery, and to give his lawyer time to arrange a divorce that won't cost him a fortune, the billionaire pays the supermodel and the valet to pretend for a month to be a couple. Within days, the bookshop owner and the billionaire are jealous, the supermodel experiences life with a nice guy, and the valet has status and self-confidence. What will each do with newfound wisdom?