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MARRIED LIFE
Rated PG-13  -  90 minutes

Friday, May 9 thru Thursday, May 15  . . .

Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday thru Thursday
*3:00, 7:30 7:30

Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams

The mysteries of the heart, the tyrannies of lust and the reckless pursuit of happiness all get thrown into a pot in this odd, original picture from writer-director Ira Sachs.  It's a drama with elements of black comedy, suspense and film noir - European in feeling but American in attitude.  It's set in 1949:  an era of glamour, of cigarettes and martini lunches.  Harry Allen has found true love and happiness with a younger woman . . . problem is, his wife wouldn't understand.  So instead of humiliating her with a divorce after decades of marriage, he decides she'd be better off dead. This story, which crosses film noir with the look and feel of a Douglas Sirk movie, balances between its crime element and its social commentary.  MARRIED LIFE has enough plot twists and moments of high tension to keep the viewer engaged, but the main points of interest are the characters themselves.  -  James Berardinelli

also Friday, May 9 thru Thursday, May 15  . . .



FLAWLESS
Rated PG-13  -  108 minutes
Friday, Saturday, Sunday Monday thru Thursday
*5:00,  9:30 5:15

Michael Caine, Demi Moore
Directed by Michael Radford  [IL POSTINO]

FLAWLESS tells a story about a robbery of flawless diamonds, but there's something even more interesting about it than the caper aspect. That's the somber contemplation of the female executive at midcentury.  It's 1960, and Moore plays Laura, a London diamond company executive whose bouffant keeps hitting the glass ceiling.  Each time she's passed over for promotion, she works even harder, sitting at her desk, late at night, in an empty building, save for the guards and the friendly night janitor, played by Michael Caine.  This janitor has been keeping his eyes and ears open for a long, long time. He reveals to Laura some disturbing firsthand knowledge and he tries to enlist her in a plan to rob the company - just a tiny robbery that the company might not notice, but that would put them both on easy street for the rest of their lives.  While FLAWLESS follows the rules of the genre, it does so in a kindler, gentler manner.  This movie has no chases or killings and lacks many of the violent trappings audiences have come to expect from heist movies.  The story construction is neat, not at all flashy, but satisfying.  Ultimately it's the world of FLAWLESS that most recommends it - the mores of the 1960's, the unconscious sexism of the boardroom, the safe sallies that pass for seductive banter, the drinking, the smoking, the high hair, and the strange gulf that seems to separate men and women. - Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 

Starts Friday  -  YOUNG @ HEART
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