Review - Before The Fall
BEFORE THE FALL [NR]
review by Sue Katz
Before The Fall is Dennis Gansel’s unflinching look at life in 1942 Germany for boys who have been judged sufficiently Aryan and accomplished to attend high schools whose mission is to prepare the next generation of leadership. The handsome adolescent Friedrich Weimer (Max Riemelt) finds relief in the local boxing gym from his back-breaking labor job. A Nazi recruiter catches his fight and offers him a sports scholarship to a “Napola” - a National Political School where the next generation of Aryan leaders are educated. Friedrich’s father is horrified at the thought of his son having anything to do with “those people,” so Friedrich forges the parental permission slip. Once enrolled, he find himself in a tough-love, homoerotic institution that makes impossible demands on him.
His relationship with the delicate Albrecht Stein (played poignantly by Tom Schilling), the son of the present regional Nazi leader, […]
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LOCAL NEWS - Cinema 320 Announces Spring Line-Up
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING (2007; PG-13)
Tues Feb 26, Thurs Feb 28, Sat Mar 1- 7:30PM; Sun Mar 2- 1, 3:10PM.
Frank Langella has earned some of the best notices of his career as an aging novelist struggling to recapture his creative fire, while baffled and bemused by the sudden appearance of a forward young graduate student who’s chosen him as the subject of her master’s thesis - and perhaps more. “Refreshingly subtle…. It’s not what you expect, and it’s not something you’ve seen before” –Newsweek. 111 min.
JOURNEY FROM THE FALL (2007; R)
Tues Mar 4, Thurs Mar 6, Sat Mar 8- 7:30PM; Sun Mar 9- 1, 3:40PM.
When Saigon falls in 1975, a South Vietnamese family endures hell and high water to reach freedom in California. “Sweeping camerawork, gorgeous yet forbidding natural vistas, and enough shocking tragedies, brazen escapes and crowd-pleasing acts of defiance to feed several action-adventure pictures” –NY Times. 135 […]
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