Showing / À l`affiche WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
AT THE MOVIES
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies is presented once a month, January to
March 2013, at 2 pm in the Harold Greenspon Auditorium.
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies aura lieu une fois par mois durant la période
de janvier à mars 2013, à 14 h dans l’Auditorium Harold Greenspon.
All movies are presented in English (or with English subtitles).
Tous les films sont présentés en anglais ou avec sous-titres en anglais.
INFO: Steven Tomlinson
514-485-6900 ext./poste 4307 ou [email protected].
MERCREDI APRES-MIDI
AU CINEMA
Swathed in darkness and immersed in light and sound—experience the dreamy
delight and rush of pleasure that is Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies. Join us
for a smart array of inspirational crowd pleasers and shameless tearjerkers that
revives the old magic in going to the movies.
Dans la noirceur de notre salle de cinéma, venez expérimenter une ambiance de rêve
et de sensations. Soyez parmi nous pour visionner une série de films intelligents, ‘grand
public’, des films qui vous feront pleurer et sourire à la fois. Wednesday Afternoon at
the Movies vous fera revivre la magie du cinéma sur grand écran.
Showing / À l’affiche
January 9 janvier: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
February 6 février: Hope Springs
March 6 mars: Robot and Frank
Wednesday, February 6 at 2 pm
Mercredi 6 février à 14 h
Hope Springs
Wednesday, January 9 at 2 pm
Mercredi 9 janvier à 14 h
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Comédie sentimentale. Un scientifique britannique, spécialisé dans la pisciculture,
est contraint d’aider un cheik yéménite qui
veut construire une rivière à saumon dans
son pays. La vie banale de l’homme bascule
pendant la réalisation de l’ambitieux projet.
Inspiré d’un roman de Paul Torday, ce film
raconte une histoire drôle et touchante où se
mêlent fantaisie et amour. La quête de l’inaccessible ouvre à la fois cœur et esprit. Croire
en soi et en sa destinée permet de réaliser
l’impossible. (107 minutes)
A British scientist (Ewan McGregor) from
a government fisheries agency is strongarmed by his bosses into supervising a
private project to introduce salmon into
the waters of Yemen for the fishing pleasure of a wealthy sheikh. His partner in
this dubious venture is an alluring agent
for an international real-estate firm
(Emily Blunt), and director Lasse Hallström
(Chocolat; The Cider House Rules) points
them toward a nerd-babe romance along
the lines of classic Hollywood fare like
Ball of Fire and The Lady Eve. Kristin Scott
Thomas, who’s been developing a sideline
in comic harridan roles, gets off some
good lines as a cynical British bureaucrat
who thinks the sheikh’s human-interest
story will displace the Iraq war from the
headlines. But Hallstrom, the old softie,
can’t resist turning this into an inspirational tale—a delightful, feel-good, freshwater Field of Dreams. (107 mins.)
Wednesday, March 6 at 2 pm
Mercredi 6 mars à 14 h
Robot and Frank
Drame fantaisiste. Un vieux cambrioleur à la retraite, qui perd la mémoire, voit sa vie de solitaire
transformée par l’arrivée inopinée d’un robot
acheté par son fils. Drôle et attendrissant, ce film
raconte la belle histoire d’amour et de fraternité
d’un vieillard grincheux en perte d’autonomie.
(89 minutes)
Comédie sentimentale. Une femme dont le
mariage bat de l’aile entraîne son mari dans
un village du Maine pour participer à une
thérapie de couple censée ranimer la flamme
entre eux. Mettant en scène un solide duo
d’acteurs, cette comédie sentimentale est
centrée sur le thème de la sexualité conjugale de personnes âgées. Le film illustre un
peu le thème, en parle beaucoup, et parfois
en termes crus. (100 minutes)
In this comedy of the near future, robots
have become commonplace, and a frail,
increasingly forgetful small-town retiree
named Frank (Frank Langella) is saddled by
his neglectful children with a walking-andtalking cyborg who serves as his nurse
and butler. At first driven nuts by the little
white gizmo (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard),
Frank comes up with an inspired idea: the
obliging robot can help him keep a hand in
his life’s work—which happens to be burglary. And suddenly Frank has a spring in
his step and a purpose to his days. There
are other angles to the story involving the
town library (and its librarian, played by
Susan Sarandon), and those are nicely handled. But the chief spectacle here—and it’s
a good one—is Langella himself. Other science-fiction spectacles offer us mind-boggling technologies, but there really is no
better special effect in the movies than a
fine actor given a wonderful part. And for
that alone (although it’s not all it offers),
Robot & Frank is a real treat. (89 mins.)
Hope Springs is an altogether pleasant surprise, a mainstream comedy/drama that
frankly and intelligently addresses the
challenges facing a couple after 31 years of
marriage. At once entirely accessible and
quietly radical in its intimacy and directness, director David Frankel’s (The Devil
Wears Prada) latest picture weighs the
comforts and dissatisfactions of domestic
life wisely by letting its stars, Meryl Streep
and Tommy Lee Jones, carry a simple but
deeply felt story like the pros they are. Kay
(Streep) and Arnold (Jones) are a devoted
couple, but decades of marriage have left
Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears
of a renowned couple’s specialist (Steve
Carell) in the small town of Great Hope
Springs, Maine, she attempts to persuade
her skeptical husband, a steadfast man
of routine, to get on a plane for a week
of marriage therapy. Just convincing the
stubborn Arnold to go on the retreat is
hard enough—the real challenge for both
of them comes as they shed their bedroom hang-ups and try to re-ignite the
spark that caused them to fall for each
other in the first place. (100 mins.)