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| This double release boasts the talents of Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Lars von Trier, and Carl Theodor Dryer. With Tickets (Italy/Great Britain/Iran, 2005, 115 mins.), Kiarostami, Loach, and Olmi join together to direct a trilogy of interwoven stories set aboard a train traveling from Central Europe to Rome. The characters connect through casual encounters, but the stories are related through their themes of social status, the mystery of chance, and sacrifice. With Medea (Denmark, 1987, 76 mins.), filmmaker Von Trier claimed to be in psychic communication with the late Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc), on whose screenplay the film is based, during the shooting. This brilliantly original exploration of the dark passions of a woman scorned unfolds in shimmering North Sea marshlands and gloomy subterranean passageways. Von Trier has created a haunting work of mythic realism. Loosely adapted from the play by Euripides. In Italian, English, Albanian, Farsi, and Danish with English subtitles. |
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