New Films From the EU: Gods & Flowers
Aero Theatre (Santa Monica, CA)
The Starring EUrope: New Films From The EU international film series continues with a pair of acclaimed foreign-language films — one, a Polish biopic, and the other a Spanish romance. In 1985, Zbigniew Religa became the first surgeon in Poland to successfully transplant a human heart, and this riveting 2014 biopic underlines that achievement, made in the face of skepticism and government bureaucracy. The Guardian calls it “a fast-paced, soapy pleasure, sort of like ER or Grey’s Anatomy, but with…iron-curtain period kitsch.” Gods earned six Eagles at the Polish Film Awards including Best Film, Actor and a Best Director award for Lukasz Palkowski. In the award-winning 2014 drama Flowers, the anonymous bouquet that Ane (Nagore Aranburu) receives each week connects her to two other women — a coworker’s wife and his mother. What unfolds from there is a moving and occasionally melancholy look at love and its aftereffects. This international double-feature hits the screen at Santa Monica’s Aero Theatre.
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