Los Angeles Film Festival 2009: CARMEN MEETS BORAT, 35 SHOTS OF RUM, PUBLIC ENEMIES
Carmen Meets Borat (top); 35 Shots of Rum (middle); Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies (bottom)
Los Angeles Film Festival, Tuesday, June 23:
- In Mercedes Stalenhoef’s Carmen Meets Borat (The Regent, 2 pm), a Romanian teenager dreams of going to Spain to escape the backwards town in which she lives. (The place is so backwards that she’s called "granny" because she remains unmarried at 17.) Inadvertently, Sacha Baron Cohen and his Borat crew change her life after they arrive in town to portray the locals as backwards Kazakhs. TV crews follow suit, and so do lawyers with the promise of hefty lawsuits. Will the adolescent’s Spanish Dream be able to come true?
- Brent Meeske’s Branson, about struggling artists in the "Entertainment Capital of Middle America," will have a second screening at The Regent at 4:30 pm.
- Set in the outskirts of Paris, Claire Denis‘ 35 Shots of Rum (The Regent, 7 pm) portrays the deepening fissures in the relationship between a man and his daughter after a handsome young man comes into their lives.
- Gala screening: Public Enemies (The Majestic Crest, 7:30 pm), Michael Mann’s crime drama starring Johnny Depp (as Public Enemy #1 Dillinger), Christian Bale, and Marion Cotillard.
- Jean-Marie Téno’s Sacred Places (Landmark 4, 9:45 pm) explores issues such as cultural identity and modernization by looking at the goings-on at a small makeshift movie house in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso in West Africa.
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Tags: 35 Shots of Rum, Carmen Meets Borat, Claire Denis, Film Festivals, Jean-Marie Téno, Johnny Depp, Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival 2009, Los Angeles Screenings, Marion Cotillard, Mercedes Stalenhoef, Public Enemies
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