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It will keep you laughing, humming and guessing to the end! Book by Jeffrey Lane, Music & Lyrics by David Yazbek | Directed by Chris Pinto MIDNIGHT IN PARIS 7:30 DRIVE 9:20 THE RUM DIARY 9:20 ORDER DRINKS & FOOD RIGHT FROM YOUR SEAT Current movie schedule was unavailable at time of press. Please visit cinemark.com for movies and times A SEPARATION: Writen and Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Peyman Moadi, Leila Hatami and Sareh Bayat, 2011. PG13. 123 minutes. 44444 Mar. 9-11*, 15-17, 22-25*, 29-31 Curtain 8:00 pm Thurs.–Sat. *2:00 pm Sun. Tickets: $18 ($13 for Thursday) NEXT WEEK: EW’S TOP PICK MELANCHOLIA “TEXT-A-BEER” 541-913-5733 Oscar-winning A Separation is a riveting anatomy of good intentions gone wrong and other inevitable pitfalls of everyday life THEVLT.COM For tickets, call 541-344-7751 Box office open 2-5:30 Wed.–Sat. 2350 Hilyard Street, Eugene On Facebook at TheVLT Adv. 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(PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1130 205) 435 710 940 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G) Fri. - Sat.(1135 155) 420 645 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND IN REAL D 3D (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1230 PM) 705 PM JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Fri. - Sat.405 PM 935 PM SAFE HOUSE (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1225) 430 735 1020 STAR WARS: EP. 1 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.955 PM THE VOW (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(1150 235) 505 750 1025 CHRONICLE (PG-13) Fri.910 PM Sat.925 PM THE DESCENDANTS (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(1220 310) 635 920 Adv. Tix on Sale SILENT HOUSE DR SEUSS' THE LORAX IN REAL D 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1230 240) 450 700 920 DR SEUSS' THE LORAX (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.(100 315) 520 730 950 PROJECT X (DIGITAL) (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(130) 420 715 1010 ACT OF VALOR (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(140) 430 720 1000 THIS MEANS WAR. (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(110) 400 650 940 GHOST RIDER IN REAL D 3D (PG-13) ★ Fri. - Sat.(120) 410 710 955 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Fri. - Sat.(350 PM) JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND IN REAL D 3D (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.(1245 PM) 640 PM 930 PM PROJECT X (DIGITAL) (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(100 315) 525 735 950 GONE (PG-13) Fri. - Sat.(110 PM) 715 PM WANDERLUST (R) - ID REQ'D Fri. - Sat.(130) 415 700 930 THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G) Fri. - Sat.(120) 430 650 920 STAR WARS: EP. 1 IN REALD 3D - EVENT PRICING (PG) ★ Fri. - Sat.400 PM 940 PM C omposed with patient precision and restraint by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi from his own script, the Oscar-winning fi lm A Separation spools out as a gripping domestic and legal drama as well as a gentle but exacting anatomy of emotional cause and effect — of life as a kind of compound error, full of decent but fl awed people, driven by love but blinded by pride and prejudice. On the surface, the premise of A Separation is stark: A husband refuses to travel abroad with his wife because he must care for his stricken father; also, because Iranian law requires that both parties agree to the terms of a divorce, the husband thwarts his wife’s desire to remove their 11-year-old daughter from “this situation” of their current lives. Mistakes are made; bad things happen to good people; good people do bad things; and we all fall down. But such a thumbnail sketch makes checkers of chess. As a given character’s actions — whether motivated by fear, pride, love, need — lead ineluctably to another character’s response, the audience bears witness to a chain of events that result in a crisis far more profound and harrowing than crime and punishment, guilt and innocence. What A Separation depicts so perfectly, and with an almost unbearable generosity of spirit, is the fl im-fl am fuckery of negotiating life’s daily pitfalls and constant upheavals, the late payments and family spats, the slights, fi ghts and sudden fl ights of anger, and it does so with a calm omniscience that the fi lm’s characters lack. The movie draws its quiet force from this tension, the tug-of-war between the angels of our better nature and slings and arrows of our own limitations. As the drama unfolds and motives are revealed, as buttons are pushed and egos bruised, the viewer is guided beyond the realm of easy judgments — beyond the familiar comfort of common sympathies — and into a heart-wrenching plateau of solitude where there presides an understanding of human frailty and fallibility that can only be called spiritual. There were moments during A Seperation when I was yelling warnings at the screen — “Yes, you idiot, ask her back! Fuck your pride!” — or moaning about the inevitable outbreak of further misunderstanding. This is a fi lm that embodies the idea that if God never existed, we would have invented her anyway, a sentiment that strikes me not as cynical but, instead, quite comforting — the notion that life is an impossible morass which we are ill equipped to navigate but still capable of a scorched nobility. In A Separation, the road to hell truly is paved with good intentions. Farhadi has written ten fi lms and directed fi ve, and with A Separation he has concocted a thing of rare and fragile grace. It is a modest fi lm, the existential opposite of the epic bombast of Hollywood’s “important” fi lms. With unswerving honesty and a persistently forgiving spirit, A Separation turns the strictures of blunt morality and codifi ed law upside-down and inside-out. The movie asks us to imagine fate as the great equalizer, a force that reveals humanity’s suffering to be a condition as inevitable as it is untenable. And, in the most slant-wise and improbable way, Farhadi has created one of the most effective anti-war fi lms in years. Because, if you can sit through A Separation and still believe that Iran is in every way the antithesis of the United States, you are already a casualty of war. Whether intended or not, and whether intentions even matter in the end, Farhadi’s fi lm tells us in no uncertain terms that we are sometimes you and you are often us, and that life at ground level is tough and shitty for everyone, maybe even in equal measure. Perhaps, even, in similar ways. And this is what great movies can and should do, and why they are so important. ew Times For 03/02 - 03/03 © 2012 20 MARCH 1, 2012 EUGENE WEEKLY WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM
