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Monday Highlights at the AFI FEST 2005



The Gigolos (2005) directed by Richard Bracewell, starring John Ivay, Paul Moody, Anna Massey, Sian Phillips, Susannah York, Trevor Sather

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 andHorst Buchholz. . . Mein Papa / Horst Buchholz . . . My Father (2005) directed by Sandra Hacker and Christopher Buchholz 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 Sorstalansag / Fateless (2005) directed by Lajos Koltai, starring Marcell Nagy, Bela DoraSorstalanság / Fateless (Hungary, 134 min., 6:45pm), based on Nobel Prize winner Imre KertĂ©sz'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.

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