The Last Mistress

2007. France/Italy. Dir: Catherine Breillat. With Asia Argento, Fu’ad Aït Aattou. 104 min.
Director Breillat recreates the glamour of 19th Century Paris to frame a steamy story of sexual obsession. Swashbuckling Ryno leaves his lover of ten years to marry a virginal daughter of aristocracy. But is his passion dead, or will his last mistress come back to haunt him? Presented as part of The Tournées Festival.

Five Hours From Paris (Hamesh Shaot me’Pariz)

2009. Israel. Dir: Leonid Prudovsky. With Vladimir Freedman, Dror Keren. 90 min.
In this bittersweet romantic comedy, an aerophobic Israeli cabbie and a married Russian music teacher begin a delicate romance as he readies himself to fly out for his son’s bar mitzvah and she prepares to immigrate to Canada to join her husband. Speaker: film director Haim Tabakman, Jewish and Israel Visiting Scholar in Residence.

 

 

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

1975. UK. Dir: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones. With With Several Very Silly People. 91 min.
In the anarchic British troupe’s medieval opus, King Arthur and his men are given a holy mission… and then are promptly distracted by Knights Who Say Ni, Holy Hand Grenades, and debates about the air-speed velocity of swallows. Don’t let mere flesh wounds keep you away!

Walkabout

1971. UK. Dir: Nicholas Roeg. With Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil. 100 min.
A teenage girl and her six year-old brother find themselves stranded in the heart of the deadly Australian outback and soon befriend a an adolescent Aboriginal on his solo rite of passage. What unfolds is a bizarre and intense contemplation of survival, love, and the hostility between colonization and the natural world.