Tuesday, May 13:
Le Week-End at Sundance Cinemas, 6:50 pm»
Post-Screening Discussion led by Rob Thomas of the Capital Times and Madison Movie.
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We were a bit late posting our Movie Tuesday event for May 6, so we’re making up for it with an early posting for next Tuesday, May 13 to see Le Week-End at Sundance at 6:50pm. As you may know, Sundance 608 has been hosting several post-screening discussions by Rob Thomas, and luckily this screening will be one of them.
We’re going to make an extra effort to spread the word this week. We’ve aggregated many reviews of Le Week-End (positive and negative) at our Madison Film Forum Flipboard Magazine.
Here’s an excerpt from Rob Thomas’s review:
Beware the trailer for Le Week-End, which sells the film as a fizzy romantic comedy for the older set, its stars romancing their way through Paris. In fact, Roger Michelle’s acidic and poignant film is less “Before Sunrise” and more “Before Midnight”. . .
. . .[Jim] Broadbent and [Lindsay] Duncan, two of Britain’s best working actors, are perfectly cast as the couple, making you sense the long history between them even before screenwriter/novelist Hanif Kureishi teases out the details. Duncan is beautiful in a chilly sort of way, the sort of woman who seems to stand just a bit apart from the life she’s leading. And Broadbent has one of his best roles as the seemingly ordinary Nick; he looks amiable and shambling, but you can see the panic in his eyes as he sees his entire life at risk.
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Meanwhile, here’s the trailer that Rob warns you about (or one similar, anyway):