July 1, 35 Shots of Rum
by
35 Shots of Rhum
director: Claire Denis
Starring Mati Diop, Alex Descas, Grégoire Colin, Nicole Dogue
@ ICE Theaters, Thursday, July 1, 7pm | General Adm: $5.00
210 West 87th Street | 773-892-3204 |http://icetheaters.com
102 minutes / 35mm / 1.85 / Dolby Digital / France / French with English Subtitles
Lionel, a widower who drives RER trains for a living, has raised his daughter Josephine alone for many years. They have always shared a special bond and live a secure and contented life somewhat isolated from others, in an apartment building in a suburb of Paris. Josephine an anthropology student, is now grown and become a young woman but remains deeply devoted to her father. Noé is a moody young man living alone with his cat in the same apartment building. He leads a disorganized life and goes abroad often. His sole reason for remaining in the building is Josephine, whom he has feelings for but he is temperamentally unable to commit to. Gabrielle, a cab driver and another neighbor, who once had a love affair with Lionel appears to still harbor feelings for him and motherly feelings towards Josephine, but both father and daughter are ambivalent toward anything more than a casual friendship outside their special relationship.
As their lives are pulled in different directions,father and daughter realize they must finally confront an aspect of their past in order to embrace their own destinies.