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    @ AFM 2011
TODAY SCREENING
TORMENTED
BY TAKASHI SHIMIZU
CINEMATOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER DOYLE
 
 
Japan, 2011, 83’, Japanese, 3D Horror/Thriller
Cast: Hikari Mitsushima, Teruyuki Kagawa, Takeru Shibuya
 
 
 

Director Takashi Shimizu's new film centers on a young boy whose family seems to be falling apart around him. The situation gets worse when he manifests a growing and dangerous friendship and reliance on a stuffed rabbit that comes to life. Is he crazy; is his sister alive or dead; is their illustrating father going insane or are they all delusional? Shimizu ventures once more into the terrifying corners of the mind.


Screening:
Nov 02 (Wed) 01.00 pm AMC Santa Monica 7
Nov 05 (Sat) 11.00 am AMC Santa Monica 3
 
MICHAEL
BY RIBHU DAS GUPTA
 
 
India, 2011, 98’, Drama, Hindi
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Mahie Gill, Purav Bhandare,
Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Irawati Harshe Mayadev 
 
  

Set in Kolkata, this is a character-driven psychological drama in which MICHAEL (Naseeruddin Shah), a loyal, hard working police officer is ordered by his superiors to open fire on a peaceful crowd of protesters. He shoots away from the crowd but a bullet accidentally ricochets and kills a 12-year-old boy. Michael’s career, and whole life start to fall apart especially when he is fired from the force and he begins to receive threatening phone calls suggesting retribution on his own young son. As he struggles to care for his son, his eyesight starts to fail. Taking on odd jobs to survive he  works in a local cinema and starts making extra money by pirating movies. The story of a good man falling off the path and his struggle to hold his life and family together.

 

Screening:
Nov 02 (Wed) 03.00 pm Criterion 3
Nov 06 (Sun) 11.00 am Criterion 1
 
 
 
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