Week of June 6th
Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
A young boy is plucked out of poverty and taken to study ballet in communist China. He then travels to America, learns what freedom is all about and is on a path of defection from communist China. This is an autobiographical film and centers on what it is like to be caught between two worlds – your homeland and your desired homeland and the price that must be paid for self-expression.
Micmacs (2009)
From the director of Amelie comes a fun, quirky film about a man who’s life has been plagued by weapons and one day gets a stray bullet lodged in his skull. Fed up with the destructive nature of all these weapons in his life he is determined to find out the manufacturer of the bullet and bring down the company that made it. Along the way he meets up with a group of eccentric junkyard dealers who help him on his quest to destroy the weapon’s manufacturers.