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September 9 - 16, 1999

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Mifune

Søren Kragh-Jacobsen's film is the third release from Dogma 95 (after Lars von Trier's Idiots and Thomas Vinterberg's The Celebration), and under the title Mifunes sidste sang ("Mifune's Last Song"), it won the Silver Bear (second place, behind Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line) at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Yuppie Kresten has just settled into Copenhagen life with his new bride when the news of his father's death arrives and he has to return to the Danish countryside to care for his retarded brother (who's the Toshiro Mifune fan). Naturally the housekeeper Kresten hires from the city turns out to be a hooker. Kragh-Jacobsen fulfills the official Dogma precepts of simple and straightforward (and the unofficial requirement of quirky), but his film eventually gives in to sentimentality, and no points will be awarded for guessing whether our hero winds up with his wife or the hooker. Screens at the Copley Place Sunday, September 12 at 7 and 9:45 p.m. and Monday, September 13 at 12:45, 3, and 5:15 p.m.

-- Jeffrey Gantz


Film Festival Feature Films

| The Minus Man | The Tavern | Black Eyed Dog | The Last September | A Wake in Providence | Man of the Century | Pups | Dreaming of Joseph Leeds | Wisdom of Crocodiles | That's The Way I Like It | American Beauty | Mifune | Black Cat, White Cat | Hit and Runway | All the LIttle Animals | Me Myself I | The Alchemist and the Virgin | Trash | Old Man River | The Poet and the Con | Snow Falling on Cedars | Guinevere | East is East | American Movie | Rivers of Babylon | Two Ninas | Rats | Keepers of the Frame | The Runner |


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