[NEohioPAL]Stocker Arts Center Film Series - THE BUTTERFLY and VALENTIN

[Deb Sadowski]

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Be sure to see this week's DOUBLE FEATURE on LCCC Stocker Arts Center's
Film Series.  Please note:  refreshments will be available for purchase
in the lobby
during the intermission between shows.

Friday, February 25 / DOUBLE FEATURE - starting at 8:00 PM

THE BUTTERFLY

2002(PG) 79 min.   France/subtitles   Director: Philippe Muyl
Cast: Michel Serrault, Claire Bouanich, Nade Dieu

"THE BUTTERFLY" is the story of eight-year-old Elsa and her mom Isabelle
who move in next to Julien, an ornery old entomologist with a lavish
butterfly collection in his apartment.  Her mother is hardly ever home,
and Elsa soon grows attached to her neighbor. When Julien sets out on a
weeklong hike in search of a rare and beautiful butterfly, Elsa hides
herself in his car.  Although Julien doesn’t want Elsa and her constant
questions around, he begrudgingly accepts the situation and allows her
to tag along with him on his expedition to the Alps, where she learns
many things about the natural and the human world.  The heart of the
movie follows their quest for the elusive butterfly known as Isabella
(named for the Spanish queen), which has a lifespan of only three days
and three nights and which in Julien’s mind is associated with a
personal tragedy.  Gorgeous, languid tracking shots of the two explorers
trekking through hillside meadows and woods with misty snow-capped
mountains looming in the background capture the wonder of nature as
experienced through the eyes of a child.  The sensuous atmosphere is so
intense it’s intoxicating.  In one enchanted sequence, Julien, while
telling Elsa a story, expertly pantomimes his own words from behind a
fire-lighted screen.  A scene of a caterpillar hatching from its cocoon
and gradually unfurling its wings matches the beauty and strangeness of
the best nature documentaries.


VALENTIN

2002(PG13) 83 min. Argentina/subtitlesDirector: Alejandro Agresti
Cast: Rodrigo Noya, Alejandro Agresti, Carmen Maura, Julieta Cardinali,
Max Urtizberea

Valentin is a 9-year-old boy who is solemn and observant and peers out
at the world through enormous glasses that correct his wandering eye.
He lives with his grandmother in Buenos Aires in the late 1960s.  His
mother is not on the scene.  His father appears from time to time with a
girlfriend, usually a new one.  Valentin spends a lot of time observing
the adults in his life with analytical zeal.  The movie sets its story
against an Argentina carefully remembered by director Agresti.  Buenos
Aires looks and sounds cosmopolitan and embracing, and there is a
leisurely feeling to the streets and cafes, especially one in which
Valentin observes a man sitting and reading and smoking, day after day.
This is Rufo, a musician who gives Valentin some piano lessons and
becomes his confidant.  “Rufo gave me the feeling I was older and more
useful,” he explains.  By the end of the film, Valentin feels, with some
reason, that he has been set adrift by the adult world.  But he is smart
and resourceful, and he has a simple but effective working knowledge of
human nature.  What he does, how he does it and for whom he does it, is
discovered in the closing scenes which are filled with a sublime
serendipity.  Let us just say that he earns his name!  "VALENTIN" joins
the pantheon of outstanding foreign films about boys building character
by struggling through difficult childhoods.

Stocker Arts Center is on the campus of Lorain County community College,
1005 North Abbe
Road, Elyria, Ohio  44035; 440-366-4140 or 800-995-5222, ext. 4140.
Box Office:  440-366-4040 or 440-995-5222, ext. 4040.

Take I-90 to Exit #148 (Rt 254/Sheffield exit), go east on Rt 254 to
Abbe Road, turn south on
Abbe Road to the college on left.  For further directions see our web
site at www.lorainccc.edu.

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<font color="#000099"><font size=+1>Be sure to see this week's DOUBLE FEATURE
on LCCC Stocker Arts Center's</font></font>
<br><font color="#000099"><font size=+1>Film Series.  Please note: 
refreshments will be available for purchase in the lobby</font></font>
<br><font color="#000099"><font size=+1>during the intermission between
shows.</font></font>
<p><font color="#000099"><font size=+2>Friday, February 25 / DOUBLE FEATURE
- starting at 8:00 PM</font></font>
<p><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+3>THE BUTTERFLY</font></font>
<p>2002(PG) 79 min.   France/subtitles   Director:
Philippe Muyl          
Cast: Michel Serrault, Claire Bouanich, Nade Dieu
<p>"THE BUTTERFLY" is the story of eight-year-old Elsa and her mom Isabelle
who move in next to Julien, an ornery old entomologist with a lavish butterfly
collection in his apartment.  Her mother is hardly ever home, and
Elsa soon grows attached to her neighbor. When Julien sets out on a weeklong
hike in search of a rare and beautiful butterfly, Elsa hides herself in
his car.  Although Julien doesn’t want Elsa and her constant questions
around, he begrudgingly accepts the situation and allows her to tag along
with him on his expedition to the Alps, where she learns many things about
the natural and the human world.  The heart of the movie follows their
quest for the elusive butterfly known as Isabella (named for the Spanish
queen), which has a lifespan of only three days and three nights and which
in Julien’s mind is associated with a personal tragedy.  Gorgeous,
languid tracking shots of the two explorers trekking through hillside meadows
and woods with misty snow-capped mountains looming in the background capture
the wonder of nature as experienced through the eyes of a child. 
The sensuous atmosphere is so intense it’s intoxicating.  In one enchanted
sequence, Julien, while telling Elsa a story, expertly pantomimes his own
words from behind a fire-lighted screen.  A scene of a caterpillar
hatching from its cocoon and gradually unfurling its wings matches the
beauty and strangeness of the best nature documentaries.
<br> 
<p><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+3>VALENTIN</font></font>
<p>2002(PG13) 83 min. Argentina/subtitlesDirector: Alejandro Agresti
<br>Cast: Rodrigo Noya, Alejandro Agresti, Carmen Maura, Julieta Cardinali,
Max Urtizberea
<p>Valentin is a 9-year-old boy who is solemn and observant and peers out
at the world through enormous glasses that correct his wandering eye. 
He lives with his grandmother in Buenos Aires in the late 1960s. 
His mother is not on the scene.  His father appears from time to time
with a girlfriend, usually a new one.  Valentin spends a lot of time
observing the adults in his life with analytical zeal.  The movie
sets its story against an Argentina carefully remembered by director Agresti. 
Buenos Aires looks and sounds cosmopolitan and embracing, and there is
a leisurely feeling to the streets and cafes, especially one in which Valentin
observes a man sitting and reading and smoking, day after day.  This
is Rufo, a musician who gives Valentin some piano lessons and becomes his
confidant.  “Rufo gave me the feeling I was older and more useful,”
he explains.  By the end of the film, Valentin feels, with some reason,
that he has been set adrift by the adult world.  But he is smart and
resourceful, and he has a simple but effective working knowledge of human
nature.  What he does, how he does it and for whom he does it, is
discovered in the closing scenes which are filled with a sublime serendipity. 
Let us just say that he earns his name!  "VALENTIN" joins the pantheon
of outstanding foreign films about boys building character by struggling
through difficult childhoods.
<p>Stocker Arts Center is on the campus of Lorain County community College,
1005 North Abbe
<br>Road, Elyria, Ohio  44035; 440-366-4140 or 800-995-5222, ext.
4140.
<br><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+1>Box Office:  440-366-4040
or 440-995-5222, ext. 4040.</font></font>
<p>Take I-90 to Exit #148 (Rt 254/Sheffield exit), go east on Rt 254 to
Abbe Road, turn south on
<br>Abbe Road to the college on left.  For further directions see
our web site at www.lorainccc.edu.</html>

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