Sorties ciné de la semaine du 30 octobre 2011

Synopsis : A environ trent-cinq ans, Alex est un personnage émotif et névrosé. Quand sa mère est subitement hospitalisée à la suite d’un accident vasculaire cérébral, la vie du fils attentionné déraille. A l’hôpital, Alex se retrouve dans une sorte de parodie de zoo humain, aussi comique que dramatique, où se succèdent personnages inattendus et événements surprenants. Tentant désespérément de se faire à sa nouvelle situation, il se retrouve coincé entre les conseils bien intentionnés des médecins, ses parents et ses amis. Encore davantage déséquilibré, Alex commet ses propres erreurs – avec les meilleures intentions.

Synopsis : Trois amies, à la tête d'une épicerie en perte de vitesse, décident de créer un service de téléphone érotique, ce qui n'est pas du goût de la compagne du maire.

Synopsis : A mysterious criminal rolls into a small town planning to knock off the local bank, assuming it will go off without a hitch. But when he encounters a retired poetry professor, his plans take an unlikely turn. With no place to stay, the professor generously welcomes him into his home. As the two men talk, a bond forms between these two polar opposites, and surprising moments of humor and compassion emerge. As they begin to understand each other more, they each examine the choices they've made in their lives, secretly longing to live the type of lifestyle the other man has lived, based on the desire to escape their own.

Synopsis : For twenty years, filmmaker Jennifer Fox has been following the high Tibetan master, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and his Italian born son, Yeshi, with her camera. The result is the astounding feature length documentary, MY REINCARNATION, which tells the rare inside story of one of the last reincarnate teachers to be trained in Tibet and his son's stubborn reluctance to follow in his father's footsteps. Rinpoche escaped Tibet in 1959 and settled in Italy, where he married and had two children, of which Yeshi was the first. As a boy, Yeshi was recognized as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, who died after the Chinese invaded Tibet. But Yeshi grew up in Italy and never wanted to have anything to do with this legacy...