Monday Night Film Series presents OFFICIAL COMPETITION-FR

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The Monday Night Film Series presents OFFICIAL COMPETITION.

When an octogenarian pharmaceutical tycoon decides to finance a great work of cinema, he purchases the rights to a Nobel Prize–winning novel and entrusts the property to enigmatic auteur Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz; Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Parallel Mothers). To complete her vision, she casts a pair of veteran thespians who couldn’t be less alike: Iván Torres (Oscar Martínez, The Distinguished Citizen), a legend of the stage with high ideals, and Félix Rivero (Antonio Banderas; Pain and Glory, Once Upon A Time In Mexico), a glamorous global star consumed by his own celebrity. Awash in egomania and deliciously absurd behind-the-scenes hijinx, Argentine writer-directors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat provide an ingenious, icy satire of Hollywood.

“The movie would hit every bullseye it needed to even without her near-surgical deconstruction of the narcissistic monsters who scream “action” and “cut.” With Cruz’s take on artistic “genius,” however, this satire officially becomes a work of actual genius.”

- David Fear, Rolling Stone

This term, 14 limited release, independent foreign and Canadian films will be shown. Admission is $10/film, but a yearly $18 student film society membership reduces admission cost to $7/film. The series is open to all. Memberships are available at Tilley 102 every Monday night.

For further info, contact NB Film Co-op at 506-455-1632 or  info@nbfilmcoop.com.

The NB Film Co-op, in partnership with the UNB Faculty of Arts and the Toronto Film Festival, presents the series.

Building: Tilley Hall

Room Number: Room 102