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by Shaula Clark |
March 20, 2009
Tight
budgets mean you’re probably not jetting off to Europe anytime soon,
but you can still indulge your world-travel aspirations with these
upcoming films.
BOSTON TURKISH FILM FESTIVAL
Who knows wanderlust better than carnies? In the Boston Turkish Film Festival’s A Fairground Attraction,
two star-crossed lovers — a bewitching carnival performer and a
construction worker — try to make romance bloom amid the popcorn-strewn
dust of the midway. Other festival highlights include the taut thriller
Three Monkeys and the historical drama LIsten to the Ney. The fest runs from March 27 to April 5 at the Museum of Fine Arts (465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 17.267.9300); get tickets and a full lineup at 617.369.3907 or www.mfa.org.
L’ELISIR D’AMORE
No
outing is more cultured than a trip to the opera, and no trip to the
opera is more affordable than a Divas in the Dark showing at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard Street, Brookline, 617.734.2500). The upcoming installment of the opera-inspired film series will feature L’Elisir d’Amore
(1996), a tale in which a peasant woos the woman of his dreams with a
special “love potion.” It’s actually just wine, but his drunken antics
turn out to be the kickstart this romance needs. Travel across the
ocean and back in time to 1920s rural Italy for this commedia classic. It screens on April 5 at 11 a.m.; tickets are $9.75. For more info, call the theatre or visit www.coolidge.org.
SIN NOMBRE
“A
psychic once told me you’ll make it to the USA — not in God’s hands,
but in the hands of the devil,” the young Honduran protagonist of Sin Nombre
tells her her friend, a Mexican teen trying to shed his violent
gangland past, as they risk their lives to cross the border. A film
that will doubtless renew your appreciation for being grounded in los Estados Unidos, Sin Nombre made a splash at Sundance 2009. Catch it at the Kendall Square Cinema (1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, 617.499.1996), starting March 27. Call or visit www.landmarktheatres.com for details.
TOKYO!
Many movies are love letters to filmmakers’ favorite cities, but few are as gleefully unhinged as Tokyo! In the spirit of Paris, je t’aime or New York Stories, Tokyo! is a triptych of short films from directors Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Leos Carax (The Lovers on the Bridge), and Bong Joonho (The Host).
Together, these three vignettes — a surreal study of starving artists,
a tale of a mutant sewer-dweller gone rogue, and a love story between a
recluse and a pizza-delivery girl — hit the Kendall Square Cinema on April 10.
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