Wednesdays with Cinema at MCF / Anti – Tribute to Saint Valentine

Wednesdays with Cinema at MCF
MCF in the line of its overall contribution to the art lovers of the city of Athens with the cooperation, as well as the support of New Star, the independent distribution company for specially selected films and Velissarios Kossyvakis, establishes an informal Cinema Club, every Wednesday at 21:30, with the entrance free of charge, in the Foundation’s high standards Cinema Hall.

Films by acknowledged and new filmmakers, films which shape a well-built cinematic language with evident mark of each director, films which have contributed to the specific image as well as the progress of that cinema which illustrates the diverse, which shapes horizons, entertains and at the same time focuses on humans and situations, relationships and events of wider interest.

ANTARES – A STUDY ABOUT LOVE
BY GOETZ SPIELMANN

A block of residences at the suburbs of the big city, usual, we meet this image everywhere, multistorey buildings, tons of concrete, just a bit of vegetation once in a while just for decoration. Graffiti is covering the walls, door phones, round staircases, thousand of identical windows.

The lives of three couples that live in the same standard flats are tangled the one with the other in three – day time period. And they will never become again as they were before. Three stories about passion, one story about death.

Eve, near 40 years old, has everything under control, from the daily routine in her job to the dealing with her role as a mother and wife at home. Someday she meets Thomas, an old colleague and occasional lover. Some passionate nights go by and Thomas id heading to the airport, carrying some very revealing photographs of Eve. The moments of the complete giving that they experienced together will shake everything in their lives. Sonia, the cashier of the local grocery store, intolerably envies Marcos, her husband. She has every right reason to feel this way. A baby would change everything. But how can you ensure love when using a lie? Some time ago Nicole separated from Alex, a realtor, and at her new life as a divorced mother there is no room left for him. The way that Alex is using his power to change the facts is standard: Arrogance succeeds the indifference, hate causes violence. Lives that cross in critical times, skillfully tangled in a film about the obsessions of love, the search for contact, the hope of happiness. A film about fear, loneliness, courage. At the constellation of Scorpio, 500 light years away, the double star ANTARES is radiant red. Its unique luminance reveals simultaneously its prescribed destiny. In the near future will explode like a super nova.

SOLA MEDIA presents a LOTUS FILM, TEAM FILM production
a GOETZ SPIELMAN’S film ANTARES

Featuring: PETRA MORZE, ANDREAS PATTON, HARY PRINZ, SUSANNE WUEST, DENNIS CUBIC, MARTINA ZINNER, ANDREAS KIENDL
Scriptwriter & director: GOETZ SPIELMAN Cinematographer MARTIN GSCHLACHT
Sound: EKKEHART BAUMUNG
Production design: KATHARINA WOPPERMANN
Costume design: THOMAS OLAH
Editor: KARINA RESSLER
Music: WALTER W. CIKAN
Production manager: GILBERT PETUTSCHNIG
Producers: ERICH LACKNER WULF FLEMMING

Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell

The Municipal and Regional Theatre of Agrinio, after concluding the performances at Agrinio, will present in Athens its main, for the 2011-2012 winter season, theatrical production, the play “Shirley Valentine”, by Willy Russell.

It is a sweet and sour monologue that documents the course and development of a housewife, disappointed from the 20 years of “sterile” married life and at the age of 48 she rebels and “runs away” from home, seeking her old self. It is a play of mastery for the actress that performs, and who passes from reminiscence to anger and from indignation to decisions for radical change of life.

Shirley Valentine’s revolution does not last long, but it is sufficient to re-determine herself and her substantial relationship with her old environment and that of her husband’s. As with Educating Rita, again by the same writer, the play that the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Agrinio staged two years ago with absolute success, it is hoped that “Shirley Valentine” will have the same effect on the audience.

Shirley Valentine is performed by the experienced and highly regarded actress Christina Theodoropoulou. It should also be noted that this is the third time in Greece, after Aliki Vouyouklaki and Mirka Papakonstantinou, that this play is staged.