he

20is Ozon's “majestically creepy” See the Sea (France, 1997) is screening
-tonight at Vancouver Centre at 4 p.m. and again next weekend.

| French films spotlighted

From pane 15

All Bets Are Off (Ries ne va plus)
(France /Switzerland 1998) starring Isabelle
Huppert and Michel Serrault.
> India is represented with five films
including a new work from the master him-
“self, Shyam Benegal, Sardari Begum (India,
997, in Urdu with English subtitles). The
«complex Rashomon-like narrative revolves
: uid the title character, a singer whose life
revealed through the investigations of a
“young newspaper reporter!
Thr ‘alms trom/about Iran are

accomplished to date.
> 89-year-old Portuguese director
Mandel de Oliveira has created a long iist of
great films which rarely are shown anywhere.
nexiety (Inquiétude, 1998) is a triptych of
ies dealing with inimortaliry. :
» Swiss film:

aker Alain Tanner’s latest,
quiem, also has a Portuguese flavour as it
based on a book by Antonio Tabucchi

it a.poet waiting for a meeting with ihe

& Jiggery Poker
Hamburgers

‘Norco Trials Team Deiid

ghost of Fernando de Pessoa in Lisbon.

> British rock star PJ. Harvey shares the
lead with Hal Hartley regular Martin
Donovan in The Book of Life. The one-hour
drama was shot for a TV series xbout the
millennium financed by the French TV sta-
tion La Sept ARTE.

> Also from the rock world: Nick
Broomfield’s notorious Kurt.and Courtney

(Great Britain, 1997) will be screened as pare i

of the documentary segment of the VIFF

_ program.

.. » And speaking of controversy: Todd
Solondz’ Happiness (1998), also will be
shown in the second weck of the festival at
the Ridge and Caprice. Despite winning a
prize this year at Cannes, Solondz’ film
(which has been compared to David Lynch’s
Ble Velvet) had a difficult time finding distri-
bution. Perhaps it is appropriate that
Behaviour is handling it in Canada.

" > Shattered Image (USA, 1998) is the
film Raul Ruiz was shooting in Vancouver
when he made an appearance at last year’s

“VIFF. The thriller, starring Anne Parillaud
and William Baldwin) is divided between

Vancouver and Jamaica locations with cine-
matography by the brilliant Robby Muller.

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