TWO FRIDAY FLICKS EACH MONTH!

2nd  Friday Dramas PLUS 4th Fridays Documentaries & Docudramas!!!

All movies start at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship,

Florida Avenue and State Road A1A, St. Augustine Beach

Fri,  Feb 24, 7 pm,

"Which Way Home" 

The Voyage of Unaccompanied Children to the Mexican Border

Reviewed by Pamela Cohn, documentary film blogger:

After making her first feature documentary, Sister Helen, in 2002, Rebecca Cammisa's second film, Which Way Home, finally world-premiered in the Discovery section at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. Which Way Home, a story of migrant children trying to get to the US from Latin America through Mexico, took her about six and a half years to make--about five years longer than Cammisa first supposed. Yet, oddly, her obstacle-filled journey in realizing the completion of this project (elusive funding, loads of Mexican governmental and administrative red tape to traverse, a devastating hurricane that laid waste to the train line coming out of Tapachula, among other things) mirrors the story she tells of the thousands of unaccompanied children that embark on the grueling, danger-filled voyage to be reunited with members of their families, or to find better educational and work opportunities for themselves in this country.

Friday, March 9, 7 pm

"The Dinner Game"

(1 hr. 18 min.  French, comedy)

Francis Veber wrote and directed this film adaptation (with animated opening credits) of his own play, Le diner de cons, about a competition among a group of friends to see who can find the stupidest person to bring to dinner (as indicated by the original French title, since "con" means someone who's a total dumbbell). The dinners are held each Wednesday night, and French publisher Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte) has found a world class nincompoop -- Finance Ministry accountant Francois Pignon (Jacques Villeret) who uses matchsticks to build small-scale replicas of monuments. Things quickly go awry after Pierre wrenches his back at golf. He nevertheless makes an effort to attend the dinner with his prize dunce. Francois arrives at Pierre's luxury apartment, but Pierre is in such pain they never exit the apartment for the dinner. Instead, Pierre is trapped in a situation where Francois' stupidity turns his life into a comic hell. In 1993, Villeret created the role of the dimwit onstage during 600 performances of a 27-month run, and the play also had a 1994 London production. In addition to Veber's Oscar-nominated screenplay adaptation of Jean Poiret's La Cage aux Folles (1978), reworked into The Birdcage (1996), other American comedies originated in French screenplays by Veber -- The Toy (1982), The Man with One Red Shoe- (1985), Three Fugitives (1989), and Fathers' Day (1997). Shown at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of St. Augustine, Intracoastal A1A and Florida Ave., St. Augustine Beach See www.imdb.com for more reviews.

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