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film Gourmet Cuisine and Full Bar Beyond Hatred Six Intimate Theaters Cinema Has Come to its Senses' ner of Stark I www.livingroomtheatres.com I 971.222.2010 IMAGINE A RELIGION WHERE ALL ARE WELCOME J oin us ! W itness for E arth C ommunity S aturday , J une 23 rd 12:15 - 1:00 PM O regon C onvention C enter S unday P ublic W orship S ervice J une 24 th reacting to both the visual and auditory atmos phere. The movie also has some genuinely hot (if somewhat arbitrary) girl-on-girl action and breath taking special effects. T<x> bad it stops making sense about an hour in. A- —Jemiah Jefferson Opening June 22 at Living R<x>m Theaters, the slow-paced French film Beyond Hatred documents a family’s grief set against th<^ hackdrop of the turning gears of justice. In 2002, Francois Chenu walked through a park where a gang of three Neo-Nazis lay in wait to “do an Arab’' but settled instead on “doing” a homo Knocked Up sexual. After he refused to deny his sexuality, the The tagline for 2007's funniest movie is “What three men brutally beat him and threw him in if this guy got you pregnant?” and 1 know bear a river. The film centers on the family’s grief, begin lovers who’ll be lining up around the block to ning two years after the murder against the back- (ahem) bear Seth Rogen’s love child. This hilarious drop of the trial. concoction finds a hefty nerd getting lucky one In accordance with French law, the three night with a gorgeous E! reporter (friend to gays assailants are never shown on camera. The film Katherine Heigl), only to get her pregnant. As she steadfastly avoids sensationalizing the lurid details struggles to hold her world together, he struggles to of the attack. Rather, the narrative highlights the become a man, and the audience will struggle to Chenu family and their journey to transcend grief, hear the dialogue over the gales of laughter. going beyond hatred and ultimately toward for 1 haven’t laughed till 1 cried for a long time, yet giveness. Using language invoking society, the state Knocked Up got three sets of tears out of me. Both and other lofty abstractions, the family not only Rogen and Heigl knock this one up into the strat appear to fully grieve, but also extend the hand of osphere, and Rogen strikes a beautiful blow for real forgiveness and reconciliation to the very men who guys onscreen and off. A + brutally murdered their son. Further, the film casts —Andy Mangels the victim's resistance—he screamed that the men were “cowards” as they killed him—in heroic light. La Vie en Rose More broadly, his life and the family’s values of Even if you think you’ve had it with biopics tolerance are contrasted against the insular, xeno about musicians who escape squalid childhoods to phobic reality of the criminals. The film also takes become rich and famous substance abusers, you care to explore the issues of class and access to should give this portrait of French singer Edith Piaf education at the nx>t of intolerant ideology. a whirl for rhe great tunes and Marion Cotillard’s That said, Beyond Hatred lacks a strong emotion powerhouse performance. In nonchronological al center. It remains as cold and detached as sequence, writer/director Olivier Dahan depicts American documentaries are partisan and vitriolic. Piaf’s career highlights and the tumultuous lifestyle The omniscient style of the film helps raise greater that led to her early death, concluding that her love questions of violence, criminal justice and grieving for the bottle and the needle forever thwarted her without providing any easy answers. Thus the riddles search for romantic love. The lavish concert halls raised in the film about the precious nature of and the Parisian fashions provide delicious eye can human life and the importance of social sanction for dy. Still, a more concise editing job would have hate crimes act like Zen koans teasing out an under- ¡ trimmed a welcome 30 minutes off this long and standing of the subject by taking the viewer through exhausting saga. Opens June 29 at Cinema 21. B + several different points of view. Any emotion —Stephen Blair incurred in the process is entirely by mistake. B + —Nick Pell | The Long Goodbye Day Watch This sequel to the Russian dark-fantasy cult hit Night Watch is a great popcorn movie for intellectu als, film buffs and those who like a little complexity with their explosions and car chases. Like its prede cessor, the best thing about the film is rhe subtitles. Not simply text on the bottom of rhe screen, the subtitles are alive— bouncing, changing color and Elliott Gould was him to play the 1970s incar nation of private investigator Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman’s endearing adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel. Altman substitutes Chandler’s hard-boiled detective stylings with a leisurely paced story and slapstick comedy— including a scene of future California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stripping down to his tight yellow skivvies. Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden and 4:00 - 6:00 PM O regon C onvention C enter Unitarian Universalists Standing on the side of love To learn more about these events and to find the Unitarian Universalist congregation closest to you, go to www.uua.org The Uncommon Denomination5“ A French documentary explores a grieving family's journey to move Beyond Hatred.
