Screening of “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Secret in their Eyes”

Screening of “A Beautiful Mind”: Fri 14 Feb 2014, 7.30 pm
Screening of “The Secret in their Eyes”: Sat 15 Feb 2014, 2 pm
TPD

From TPD:

For the needs of “We Are Filmmakers” trainees and movie lovers as well as welcoming the 2014 Oscar award, in February, TPD center will hold the film week which includes two categories: Best Foreign Language Film and Best Picture. In the first week, 2 films “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Secret in Their Eyes” will be presented.

About films

A BEAUTIFUL MIND is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles.

The story begins in the early years of a young prodigy named John Nash. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.

The film opened in the United States cinemas on December 21, 2001. It went to gross over $313 million worldwide and to win four Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. It was also nominated for Best Actor, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score.

It was well received by critics, but has been criticized for its inaccurate portrayal of some aspects of Nash’s life, especially his other family and a son born out of wedlock. However, the filmmakers have stated that the film was not meant to be a literal representation.

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THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (Spanish: El secreto de sus ojos) is a 2009 Argentine crime thriller film directed, produced and edited by Juan José Campanella and written by Eduardo Sacheri and Campanella, based on Sacheri’s novel “La pregunta de sus ojos” (The Question in Their Eyes). The film, a joint production of Argentine and Spanish companies, stars Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil.

The story unearths the buried romance between a retired judiciary employee and a judge who worked together a quarter century ago. They recount their efforts on a still-unsolved 1974 rape and murder that manages to cast a spell – not only on them, but on the victim’s husband and the killer. The double setting frames the period of Argentina’s Dirty War (1976 – 1983), a violent time when criminality often went unpunished.

In 2009, it was the recipient of awards in both Hollywood and Spain. The picture won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, and, with 1985’s The Official Story, made Argentina the first country in Latin America to win it twice. Three weeks before, it had received the Spanish equivalent with the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. As of 2010, it is only surpassed at the Argentine box office by Leonardo Favio’s 1975 classic Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf (Nazareno Cruz y el lobo).

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The screening is for educational purpose, entrance is free, though guests are welcome to donate to TPD Centre’s Young Cinema Fund.

The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents was established with the purposes of designing and implementing programs to assist and develop movie talents and other activities for the development of Vietnamese cinema.

Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents 51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi Tel: 04 39366559 Fax: 04 39366582 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tpdmovie.com.vn