Spanish Film Series Spring 2011
All movies are scheduled every other Wednesday. All films start at 7 PM in the Wildcat Theater.
All movies are in Spanish with English subtitles, unless indicated.
Movies are rated R, NR, or unrated.
Wed, Feb. 2: Agora, directed by Alejandro Amenábar, 2009 (English with Spanish subtitles)
4th century A.D. Egypt under the Roman Empire. Violent religious upheaval in the streets of Alexandria spills over into the city's famous Library. Trapped inside its walls, the brilliant astronomer Hypatia and her disciples fight to save the wisdom of the Ancient World. Among them, the two men competing for her heart: the witty, privileged Orestes and Davus, Hypatia's young slave, who is torn between his secret love for her and the freedom he knows can be his if he chooses to join the unstoppable surge of the Christians.
Wed, Feb 16: Los cronocrímenes directed by Nacho Vigalondo, 2007
A man who travels accidentally back to the past and meets himself there. A girl in the midst of the forest. A weird mansion on the top of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. Who's the murderer? Who's the victim?
Wed, March 2: Airbag, directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1997
Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to enjoy a bachelors party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring in a brothel. Mafioso brothel owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends "femme fatale" Fatima to check things out. Juantxo with his friends will try to get the engagement ring back and but in the process they get involved in a war between drug gangs.
Wed, March 30: Que se mueran los feos, directed by Nacho G. Velilla, 2009
Eliseo is ugly, lame and single. He hasn't met the woman of his life and has never known love. Nati is ugly and separated. She found the man of her life but, even so, has never experienced true love. Eliseo thinks that the worst of his life is still to come. Nati thinks that the best of her life is still to come. The death of Eliseo's mother reunites them in a last chance to find happiness and love. But what happens when the woman of your life is married to your brother?
For More Information Contact
Luis Guadano or Karlene Foster
Foreign Languages
EH 434
luisguadano@weber.edu or kfoster@weber.edu
626-6183
