Posted on: Tuesday, September 7, 2004

Tuesday showings precede festival

Advertiser Staff

The Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival is presenting seven Tuesday screenings of independent films, leading up to the festival.

All screenings are at 7:30 p.m. at the Dole Cannery 18 Theatres. Admission will be $8; $7 for students, seniors, children and military; and $6 for LVHIFF members. Tickets can be purchased at the Dole Cannery 18 box office on the day of the screening only.

Today's screening: "Maria Full of Grace" (USA, 2003, Spanish with English subtitles), directed by Joshua Marston.

The film tells of one young woman's journey from rural Colombia to the streets of New York. A bright, spirited 17-year-old, Maria Alvarez (Catalina Sandino Moreno) lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house and works stripping thorns from roses on a plantation. The offer of a lucrative job involving travel — in fact, becoming a drug "mule" — changes the course of her life. (Winner of the Sundance Audience Award.)

Learn more: http://www.mariafullofgrace.com/main.html

More Tuesday movies

• "Killing Machine" (Cambodia, 2003, Khmer with English subtitles). Directed by Rithy Panh. Next week: Two survivors revisit the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, now a genocide museum where former Khmer Rouge work as guides. (Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Chicago International Film Festival.)

• "Le Petite Lili" (France, 2003, French with English subtitles). Directed by Claude Miller. Sept. 28: Ludivine Sagnier ("Swimming Pool") stars. Director Claude Miller's modern adaptation of Chekov's "The Seagull."

• "Imagining Argentina" ( USA/Spain/Argentina, 2003). Directed by Christopher Hampton. Oct. 5: A theater director (Antonio Banderas) develops clairvoyant powers, allowing him to envision the horrific torture that his "missing" journalist wife (Emma Thompson) is subjected to by the military, during Argentina's "dirty war." Co-starring Ruben Blades and Maria Canals.

• "Seducing Doctor Lewis" (Canada, 2003, French with English subtitles). Directed by Jean-Fran'ois Pouliot. Oct. 19: A ragtag fishing community must persuade a young Montreal-based doctor (David Boutin) to live among them in order to get a much-needed new factory. (In French Canada, it grossed more than $8 million, topping even "The Lord of the Rings." Audience Award Winner at the Sundance festival.)