Sunday, FATHERS DAY, June 15 (Free Popcorn for Dads!): 1pm & 5pm THE GERMAN DOCTOR 3pm & 7pm BICYCLING WITH MOLIERE THE GERMAN DOCTOR review by Roger Ebert Reviews: A creepy doll factory, Nazis and the awkwardness of puberty, all wrapped up in one story: The prospect of such anxiety sounds like it would be almost be too much to bear. But writer-director Lucia Puenzo takes her time and lets the tension percolate slowly and steadily with The German Doctor, which she adapted from her own novel, Wakolda. The physician in question is Josef Mengele, the former German SS officer and so-called Angel of Death of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Puenzo tells a fictionalized version of his story during the post-World War II years when he was in hiding (as so many Nazis were) in her home country of Argentina, going by the name Helmut Gregor. She doesn’t reveal his true identity until nearly the end, but we know who he is—and we watch uneasily as he insinuates himself with an unsuspecting family in the hope of carrying out his various genetic experiments. BICYCLING WITH MOLIERE review by NY Times ***** 5 Stars: “When I see men treat each other as they do, I see nothing but base flattery, injustice, treachery, selfishness and deceit.” Those words are heard more than once in “Bicycling With Molière,” the French director Philippe Le Guay’s witty contemporary deconstruction of Molière’s 17th-century comedy “The Misanthrope.” As two actors of opposite temperaments discuss a possible collaboration on a new production of the play, their arguments about interpretation become part of a sneaky power game in which each tries to get the better of the other. Because both want to portray the title character, Alceste, they agree to take turns if Serge Tanneur (Fabrice Luchini), the older of the two, finally says yes to the project. Their conversations take place on the Île de Ré, an island off the west coast of France, where Serge, a retired actor of considerable renown, lives a reclusive existence in a dingy cottage whose leaky sewage system he refuses to repair out of general ill will. Their discussions begin when Gauthier Valence (Lambert Wilson), a handsome actor of late middle age who plays a surgeon on a popular nighttime soap opera, visits Serge to propose the revival. A scene from that tacky soap, for which Valence is highly paid, suggests that they come from not only different show business worlds but also different planets.
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