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BDX-USA September Movie selection

Dear all,

let's start the rentrée with great films you can find in the foyer of Bordeaux-USA.




Gran Torino by C. Eastwood

The story follows Walt Kowalski, a recently widowed Korean War veteran alienated from his family and angry at the world. Walt's young neighbor, Thao Vang Lor, is pressured by his cousin into stealing Walt's prized 1972 Ford Gran Torino for his initiation into a gang.
Walt thwarts the theft with his M1 Garand rifle and subsequently develops a relationship with the boy, Thao learning to grow up and Walt to show what he does and says still matter.





Henry and June by P. Kaufman


Paris, France in 1931. Anaïs Nin is in a stable relationship with her husband Hugo, but longs for more out of life. When Nin first meets Henry Miller, he is working on his first novel.
Nin is drawn to Miller and his wife June, as well as their bohemian and literary lifestyle. Nin becomes involved in the couple's tormented relationship, having an affair with Miller and also pursuing June. 




The Others by A. Amenabar 

The story takes place just after the WW2 and deals with Grace Stewart who lives ,with her son, daugther and three servants, in a remote mansion on a desolated island. Her two children cannot be exposed to the sunlight because of a rare illness, thus the household lives in constant dimness.
Not surprisingly her children starts to hear people walking and noise as if some one was moving furniture from one place to another.

Grace, pious Catholic, dismiss what they say but she has to admit the sudden departure of the former servants, the unexpected arrival of the new ones, the estranged face of her husband back from the war and doors slamming on their onw, right on her face do indicate some others are up to something unholy.