CHINESE TAKE-AWAY
Friday, September 21, 2012 – Sunday, September 30, 2012
(Argentina/Spain/2011—directed by Sebastián Borensztein)
A surprise international hit, the gently disarming Chinese Take-Away (Un cuento chino), set in Buenos Aires, is the engaging tale of a solitary, repressed hardware store owner (Ricardo Darin of The Secret in Their Eyes) who befriends a Chinese immigrant – a young man whose romance recently and abruptly ended on an idyllic Chinese river in a method unique in movie history. Though these two men seem to have nothing in common – they can’t even speak the same language – they manage to form an unlikely bond that at first suggests the ingredients of a predictable culture-clash comedy, yet is anything but. Argentine director Sebastián Borensztein’s movie is a discovery of the most rewarding kind: one that gets more nuanced and surprising as it goes along, and which stirs ripples of pleasure in the mind weeks after seeing it. Best Picture Award, Houston International Film Festival; Goya Prize (Spain), Best Latin American Film. In Spanish with English subtitles. (90 min.)
"Four stars out of four! It is hardly possible to suggest how involving this story becomes." –Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times