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Sarah’s Key — December 12, 2011

Sarah’s Key is a fictionalized account of the actual roundups in Paris that sentenced thousands of Jewish families to their deaths. In the summer of 1942, ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance) knows something is wrong. In an attempt to save … Continue reading

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Beginners — November 28, 2011

Beginners, a moving and oftentimes humorous portrait of family, love, loss, and self-discovery that deftly juggles two chronologies to tell the heartwarming story of two major points in the life of Oliver (Ewan McGregor, Ghost Writer), a talented illustrator. One … Continue reading

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Nipissing Muskoka Arts & Culture Film Series

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West is West — Monday November 14, 2011

Screened on: Monday November 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. — West is West is a heart-warming and hilarious follow-up to East is East that takes the boisterous Khan family from bleak Salford back to the hot dust of rural Pakistan. … Continue reading

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Potiche — Monday October 24, 2011

Monday October 24, 2011 — French-language comedy Potiche, starring Catherine Deneauve and Gerard Depardieu. In 1977, in a small town in France, Suzanne Pujol (Deneuve) lives the life of a traditional housewife, doting on her grumpy husband, Robert (Fabrice Luchini, … Continue reading

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Tree of Life — September 26, 2011

Tree of Life September 26, 2011–A visual poem featuring A-listers Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain. A family is devastated by the loss of one of its three sons. The fragmented, non-linear narrative shifts between the boys’ suburban 1950s … Continue reading

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Roundup of the 2010-2011 season

Our ninth season ended off with a bang on May 9 with The Way Back, sponsored by Gina and Brian Mitchell of The Norwood Theatre. What a great season! Many thanks to our volunteers, our sponsors, to our friends at … Continue reading

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End of 9th Season–May 2011–Thank You!

May 2011 Our ninth season ended off with a bang on May 9 with The Way Back, sponsored by Gina and Brian Mitchell of The Norwood Theatre. What a great season! Many thanks to our volunteers, our sponsors, to our … Continue reading

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The Way Back

Screen date: May 9, 2011 Set during the depths of the Second World War, seven prisoners escape a Siberian gulag, only to discover that their fight for survival has only just begun. Grueling barely cuts it as the newly “liberated” … Continue reading

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My Afternoons with Margueritte

Monday, April 25, 2011 at 7 p.m. A touching story of a most unlikely friendship. What does a hulking, middle-aged odd-jobber (Gérard Depardieu) have in common with a sweetly articulate retired international civil servant (Gisèle Casadesus)? In this gentle French-language … Continue reading

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