AFI FEST 2005 Wednesday Highlights


Today’s highlights at the AFI FEST 2005, at the Arclight Theater complex in Hollywood, include the following: Fuck (U.S., 91 min., 4:00pm), Steve Anderson’s study ofFuck (2005) directed by Steve Anderson freedom of speech, focuses on the most shocking, disgusting, utterly vile – and oftentimes quite handy – expletive in the English language; Dagur Kári’s Voksne Mennesker / Dark Horse (Denmark, 106 min., 9:45pm), the story (in black and white) of an irresponsible graffiti artist whose life turns upside down when he falls in love with another free spirit; Lajos Koltai’s Sorstalanság / Fateless Dark Horse by Dagur Kari (Hungary, 134 min., 12:30pm), based on Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész’s story of a 14-year-old boy who, after being separated from his family, is interned in several concentration camps during World War II; and Josef FaresZozo (Sweden / U.K./ Denmark, 103 min., 12:00pm), Sweden’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar, is the story of a Lebanese boy who wants to leave his war-scarred land for Sweden.

 


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