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Wednesday 13 March at 8pm we will show in Cafe Amsterdam the American film "Silver Linings Playbook" directed by David O. Russell and starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. "Silver Linings Playbook" is a romantic comedy-drama film adapted from the novel of the same name by Matthew Quick.
Storyline: Pat is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves back in with his parents. Determined to win back his estranged wife, Pat meets widowed sex addict Tiffany, who tells him helping to get back his wife if he enters a dance competition with her. The two become closer as they train and Pat, his father, and Tiffany examine their relationships with each other as they cope with their disorders.
The film got highly positive critical reactions and was the first film in more the 10 years which has been nominated at the Academy Awards for all 4 main categories (best film, best director, best actor, best actress).
You are welcome to watch this interesting, funny as well as touching movie tonight in our cafe.
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Dear all,
6 Marchat 8pm in Cafe Amsterdam is "Zero Dark Thirty", directed by Kathryn Bigilow and starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton. The film has been billed as "the true story of history's greatest manhunt for the world's most dangerous man". It's a dramatization of the United States operation that found and killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, in Pakistan.
The film received wide critical acclaim and was nominated for five Academy Awards (Oscar's), including Best Picture, but lost from "Argo" which we showed a few month's ago in our cafe.
You are more the welcome to come and watch this interesting and exciting film in our cafe.
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Tonight at 8pm we will show in Cafe Amsterdam the film "Rebelle" (English title: "War Witch"). Rebelle is a 2012 Canadian drama film written and directed by Kim Nguyen who worked for more then 5 years on this project. "Rebelle" has been filmed on location in Africa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The film won several awards and has been also nominated as one of the five films for Best Foreign Language Film at last Sunday's Oscar festival (but lost from "Amour" which we showed last week). The film is about child soldiers in the African civil wars.
Plot: Komona is a 14-year-old girl who has been kidnapped from her African village by rebels to become a child soldier. She escapes from the rebels camp with an older albino solder and experiences for the very first time the joy of a peaceful life. But a new tragedy will force her to confront and fight the ghosts haunting her mind...
We will show the film in the original French language with English subtitles.
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Wednesday 28 November,we will show in Cafe Amsterdam the 2012 mythological science fiction film "Prometheus" directed by Ridley Scott and starring Noomi Repace, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron.
Storyline: In 2089 archaeologists, searching to the origins of mankind, discover on the island Skye in Scotland among other ancient artifacts a space map with the location of an apparently alien society. They interpret this as an invitation from humanity's forerunners. A team of scientists travels through the universe on the spaceship "Prometheus" to the planet of these aliens. There they discover a threat that could cause the extinction of the human race.
Prometheus is a prequel of the classic science fiction film Alien directed also by Ridley Scott.
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Wednesday 31st of October at 8pm we will show in Cafe Amsterdam the American film "Primary Colors" directed by Mike Nichols and starring John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Larry Hagman and American tv personalities as Larry King and Geraldo Rivera playing themselves.
This fairly old film (1998) is now actual again with the coming American presidential elections of next week. The film is based on the novel with the same name written by journalist Joe Klein, who had been covering Clinton's campaign for Newsweek. The film follows a southern governor on his presidential campaign trail and is based on Clinton's campaign in 1992. Film straddles the line between comedy/satire and drama/tragedy. Although not very success full at the box office "Primary Colors" got very good reviews and has still very good ratings at the mayor film sites on the internet.
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