Outstanding
Movie Highlights From CinemaWorld This December
Making
its way closer to the hearts of Filipinos, CinemaWorld continues to deliver
exciting movies from different parts of the world.
CinemaWorld
is an international channel that offers mainstream programming that is fresh,
unique, and different. It provides movie
lovers a variety of titles which they cannot find anywhere else. All movies on CinemaWorld are shown in their
original language, with English subtitles.
The month of December is filled with
remarkable movies highlighting stories of people from different walks of life,
perfect to enjoy this holiday season.
Luisa,
a mobile phone company executive, feels invisible at the age of 44. She lives alone, having been left by her
husband, while her daughter studies away from home. During an evening office party, her colleague
Jorge, who is of the same age as her and whose partner for the evening is a
young company phone salesgirl named Marina, ignores her. Indignant, Luisa turns
to an actress and to her table tennis coach to help her become “visible” and
seduce Jorge. Catch An Invisible Woman,
as Maria Bouzas shows off how she won the Mestre Mateo Award for Best Actress
as the titular character.
ANJA AFTER VIKTOR
Robert
Hansen and Sofie Lassen-Kahkle star
in this Danish romantic comedy of not-quite-requited love. Three months after breaking up with her
highschool boyfriend Viktor, Anja discovers that she loves him after all. The movie is a hilarious race against time as
Anja tries to win Viktor back before he marries someone else. Produced by the famed Regner Grasten, it
became so popular that it spawned two sequels, “Anja & Viktor – Flaming
Love” (2007) and “Anja & Viktor – The Ups And Downs” (2008).
BEHROUZ
HIT ME, MOM!
Behrouz,
a 12-year old boy, who was raised in a poor family, dreams of having his own
bike. He finds out that each player in
the champion football team in a provincial tournament is awarded a bike, so he
tries hard to secure a place in his school team. However, he knows nothing about football! Directed by Abbas Moranian, Iranian film
director, Behrouz Hit Me, Mom! won
Audience Award, Best Film, Best Child Actor and Best Director Diploma at the Hamedan
Children Film Festival in 2010.
DIFFERENT FROM WHOM?
Piero,
an openly homosexual gay rights activist, runs as the more progressive
candidate in the mayoral election of Udine, Italy. At the
other end stands the bigoted right-wing candidate, who builds physical walls
around his community to keep foreigners and drug dealers confined to their
various neighborhoods, and his candidate for vice-mayor, pro-family values
champion, Adele. In an odd twist of
events, Piero temporarily sets his political loyalties and gender preference
aside and sleeps with the gorgeous Adele, betraying his male partner, Remo in the
process. Actor Luca Argentero was
nominated for Best Actor Award at the Ente David di Donatello (the Italian
Academy Awards) playing Piero Bonutti in this 2010 Italian Comedy Different From Whom?.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS
With
the war in Iraq intensifying, a prominent radio journalist and his technician
pretend to report live from Baghdad, after losing their plane tickets and money
in this Adventure Comedy, starring Gerard Lanvin and Gerard Jugnot. As the duo hide out in the Barbes area of
Paris, in an attempt to pull off the ultimate scam, the listeners tune in
awaiting the latest word from the front lines of the war. Special
Correspondents was produced in France and directed by Frederic Auburtin of
French Romantic Comedy Paris, Je T’aime.
THE BEST THINGS IN THE WORLD
The Best Things In The World is poignant portrait of teen life through the journey
of 15-year-old Mano, whose world is turned upside down because his parents are
divorcing and his love interest is infatuated with someone else. He and his sensitive older brother Pedro are
deeply affected by the knowledge that their father, Horacio, is gay, and that
he is leaving their mother, Camila, for Gustavo – and that is not even counting
the love triangle where he, his love interest Carol, and his rival Artur figure
in. Starring Caio
Biat as Artur, whose role won him the 2012 Cinema Brazil
Grand Prize for Best Supporting Actor, The Best Things In The World, a 2012 Brazilian movie that talks about family, is
one move to watch out for.
Celebrate
the holidays with award-winning movies from CinemaWorld on Cable Link and
through the a la carte subscription or HD Movie Package of SkyCable.
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