Action Films |
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HFFNY 2011 features two full-length action films. Come see what Brazil and Chile have to get your adrenaline going!
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Alucinados/Riding High |
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Dir. Roberto Santucci, Brazil
Museum of the Moving Image
Sunday, April 10, 6:30 pm, 90 min.
Quad Cinema Monday, April 11, 5:00 pm, 90 min.
Riding High takes us into a most dramatic day in the life of Julia, a housewife who becomes the victim of two youngsters from the slums in the city of Rio de Janeiro. When Julia is kidnapped from her armored car by Case and Sapeca, what seems at first sight to be a social conflict between rich and poor turns into a much more complex plot linking the pasts and presents of the characters. |
Mandrill |
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Dir. Ernesto Diaz, Chile
Quad Cinema
Wednesday, April 13, 2:50 pm, & Thursday, April 14, 9:45 pm; 90 min.
Antonio's parents were murdered when he was a child. As an adult, he becomes a ruthless bounty hunter, code-named "Mandrill," with the sole aim of finding the murderer and avenging his parents. But Mandrill has a weakness - women - so he asks his uncle Chone, a renowned Don Juan, to teach him the act of seduction. When he is hired to capture a powerful mobster casino boss, he soon discovers that he is the man he has sought all these years.
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