- In a Better World
- Friday, June 10, 2011
- 5:30 & 8:30 p.m.
- The Tower Theatre
- 815 E. Olive Avenue, Fresno [map]
- $10.00 General Admission
- $8.00 for Students and Seniors
- buy tickets now →
“Magnificent! Exceptional! Richly humanistic. With IN A BETTER WORLD, which deservedly won this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Susanne Bier has outdone herself.” – Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“A provocative drama – meticulously constructed. The performances are superb.” – David Germain, ASSOCIATED PRESS
“The Oscar for IN A BETTER WORLD, from director Susanne Bier, is well deserved. This filmmaker is becoming a master of the intimate, and in the drama of family relationships and world events, she created something extraordinary.” – Betsy Sharkey, LOS ANGELES TIMES
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Synopsis
This Danish drama was a 2011 Sundance Film Festival selection and it won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for best foreign language film. The movie tells the story of a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark and his work at an African refugee camp. In these different worlds, he and his family face conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. The doctor and his wife, who have two young sons, struggle with the possibility of divorce. After being bullied at school, their eldest son and his new friend engage in a dangerous act that puts lives in danger. The film is directed by acclaimed Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier and stars Mikael Persbrandt, best known to the Filmworks audience for his role in the Swedish drama Everlasting Moments.
2011, 35mm, 119 minutes
In Danish and Swedish, with English subtitles.
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