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MY PERESTROIKA & POTICHE

Presented by Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival at Cinema Paradiso

May 20, 2011

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My Perestroika: When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of possibilities. An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation, Robin Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain, witnessed the joy and confusion of glasnost, and reached adulthood right as the world changed around them. Through candid first-person testimony, revealing verité footage, and vintage home movies, Hessman, who spent many years living in Moscow, reveals a Russia rarely ever seen on film, where people are frank about their lives and forthcoming about their country.

Potiche: provincial French town, POTICHE is a free adaptation of the eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol, a submissive housebound ‘trophy housewife’ (or “potiche”) who steps in to manage her wealthy and tyrannical husband (Fabrice Luchini)’s umbrella factory after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone’s surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. But when her husband returns from a restful cruise in top form, things get complicated. Gérard Depardieu plays a former union leader and Suzanne’s ex-beau who still holds a flame for her. Acclaimed writer-director François Ozon (“Swimming Pool,” “Under the Sand,” “Time to Leave,”) who had previously directed Ms. Deneuve in the international hit “8 Women,” twists the original play on its head to create his own satirical and hilarious take on the war between the sexes and classes.

 

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    Cinema Paradiso

    503 Southeast Sixth Street
    Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

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    May 20, 2011

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    6:00 PM MY PERESTROIKA

    
    

    8:00 PM POTICHE

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