Cinema Sundays March 14, "The Girl On the Train"   Cinema Sundays Winter 2010 Series 47! Sunday March 14, 2010 Cinema Sundays at the Charles continues its 47th series on March14th, with the Baltimore Premier of The Girl on the Train (La Fille du RER) . Directed by Andre Techine and Written by Odile Barski, Jean Marie Besset, and Andre Techine. Starring Emilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc, Mathieu Demy, Ronit Elkabetz. 2009 Non Rated. In French with English subtitles. Running time 105 minutes. Synopsis Based on a play by Jean-Marie Besset, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN is inspired by one of the most media-blitzed and polarizing events in recent French history: a young woman’s lie about being the victim of an anti-semitic attack on a Paris suburban train. Jobless, soul-searching and rollerblading Jeanne (Rosetta’s Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Winner Emilie Dequenne,) lives in a Paris suburb with her widowed mother Louise, (Catherine Deneuve,) who makes a living as a baby-sitter. Louise helps her daughter get a job with her old flame Samuel Bleistein (Michel Blanc, Monsieur Hire, Grosse Fatigue), now a famous lawyer and Jewish activist. When Jeanne’s budding relationship with aspiring wrestler Franck (Nicolas Devauchelle) is shattered by a violent turn of events, Jeanne and Bleistein’s opposite worlds get set on a collision course, as the film becomes a complex psychological drama raising issues of race, religion and identity. --© Strand Click on the following for trailer and official site. http://www.strandreleasing.com/home.asp I say to you as an honest man that the streak of great films in series 47 continues! I’m sorry that last week’s film Ajami didn’t win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film but the screening last week was fabulous. There was a great discussion and an intense unrelenting film. This week we are privileged to have the latest film from French Director Andre Techine. You may recall Cinema Sundays screened his film Les Temoins (The Witnesses) last year…A tale of the early days of the AIDS crises and it’s implications. Our speaker for this week is Chris Reed from Stevenson University. Chris has done great work for Cinema Sundays in Russian, and French films as well as the films of Charlize Theron! It’s always a pleasure to welcome him back to Cinema Sundays. Looking forward to seeing you on the 14th for what promises to be a great French filme! Jonathan Palevsky Jpalevsky@aol.com If you’ve never been to Cinema Sundays before, see below for our stimulating, updated, yet official description. Precisely at 9:45 on a given Sunday morning, while birds chirp in the most musical manner, the doors at the Charles Theatre swing open to reveal a lobby replete with tasty bagels, hot coffee and friendly volunteers ready to serve them to you. All of our volunteers have been pre-tested for a complete lack of morning grouchiness and provide the nicest service…within reason! Guarded carefully by the enormous lobby penguin bagels, coffee and scintillating yet improvised conversation continues until 10:30. At precisely 10:30:07 some brief opening remarks by yours truly will be followed by a few remarks from our guest speaker who will never do either of two things. First he or she will never ever give away the plot of the film and second the speaker will not go on too long…especially if the film is one of those 2.5 h our Soviet era documentaries on the Romance of the Seven Tractor Drivers. Following a brief admonition not to talk during the film and a recommendation to sublet your cell phone to a starving student from the third world the screening will take place. Upon completion of the screening a robust question and answer session featuring our guest speaker will include your fascinating observations upon the recently screened movie. This flowery description barely describes the sublime joy and excitement which is Cinema Sundays. If there is a better way to spend Sunday mornings it simply hasn’t occurred to me….yet! Jonathan Palevsky Host of Cinema Sundays and completely reachable at JPalevsky@aol.com Please feel free to visit us at… Http://www.cinemasundays.com Tickets: $15 at the door. Or buy a mini-membership. 1711 N. Charles St. 410-727-3464 info: karenskicsc@comcast.net To unsu bscribe from The Charles Theatre Mailing List visit: http://www.thecharles.com/mailinglist/ To unsubscribe from The Charles Theatre Mailing List visit: http://www.thecharles.com/mailinglist/