
Monday highlights at the AFI FEST 2005, currently being held at the Arclight Theatre complex in Hollywood, include: Richard Bracewell's The Gigolos (U.K., 100 min., 4:15pm), the tale of a professional escort whose career dedicated to pleasing wealthy London women is jeopardized following a disagreement with his manager; Fuck (U.S., 91 min., 7:00pm), Steve Anderson's study of freedom of speech, focuses on the most shocking, disgusting, utterly vile – and oftentimes quite handy – expletive in the English language; Sandra Hacker and
Christopher Buchholz's Horst Buchholz. . . Mein Papa / Horst Buchholz . . . My Father (Germany, 92 min., 10:00pm), which is described as "a sincere documentary and a tragicomic film portrait providing unusual insight into the life of a world-class star and his family" (Horst Buchholz, who died in 2003 at the age of 69, starred in more than 70 films, including The Magnificent Seven and Fanny); and Lajos Koltai's
Sorstalanság / Fateless (Hungary, 134 min., 6:45pm), based on Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész's story of a 14-year-old who, after being separated from his family, is interned in several concentration camps during World War II. Fateless is Hungary's official submission for the 2005 Academy Awards.