C.O.D.’s Global Flicks Festival
Feb. 3 to March 24

Global Flicks 2009, a festival of outstanding international films, will be presented on Tuesdays, Feb. 3 to March 24, in the College of DuPage McAninch Arts Center (MAC), Mainstage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn. The McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage is located at Fawell and Park Boulevards in Glen Ellyn, Ill.

Curated by John Rangel, motion picture/television professor, the films will be shown at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 3 to March 24. Admission is free and open to the public. Films are shown in their original language with English subtitles in the MAC’s 800-seat Mainstage.

Following is a list of films scheduled for Global Flicks 2009. For more information, call the MAC Box Office at (630) 942-4000.

“Persepolis”
Iran /France – Feb. 3
Directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent  Parranaud
Set in 1970’s Iran, the animated “Persepolis” is based on Satrapi’s graphic novel, which chronicles her childhood and the confusion both she and the country felt following the Iranian Revolution. 96 min.

“Black Book”
Netherlands – Feb. 10
Directed by Paul Verhoven
Near the end of WWII, a Dutch Jewish girl narrowly escapes death at the hand of the Nazis and later joins with a resistance group. In her quest to find out who killed her parents, she discovers the Nazis have an informant and she must uncover the truth before she also becomes a victim. 145 min.

“Duck Season”
Mexico – Feb. 17
Directed by Fernando Eimbcke
This comedy, set on a dull Sunday, finds 14-year-old best friends Flama and Moko discovering the confusion of adolescent love, friendship, their parents’ divorce, loneliness and the frustrations of adult life. 90 min.

“Three Times”
Taiwan – Feb. 24
Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Two actors play the title roles in three separate love stories set in 1966, 1911 and 2005. Stories detail a soldier’s search for a woman he met playing pool, a singer’s desire to escape a bordello and a tragic love triangle. 132 min.

“4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days”
Romania – March 3
Directed by Cristian Mungiu
Set during the final days of Communism in Romania, the film follows college friends Otilia and Gabita who, upon finding out Gabita is pregnant, arrange to have a doctor perform an illegal abortion. 113 min.

“La Vie en Rose”
France – March 10
Directed by Olivier Dahan
Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard portrays famed French chanteuse Edith Piaf, from her childhood spent at her grandmother’s brothel to her death from liver cancer in 1963. “La Vie en Rose” follows the singer’s life through flashbacks and recordings of some of the “little sparrow’s” greatest songs. 140 min.

“Bamako”
Mali– March 17
Directed by Abderrahmane
Set against the backdrop of an African civil society taking proceedings against the World Bank and IMF for allegedly perpetuating the African debt crisis, is the story of Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband, Chaka. While the country’s unrest grows, the couple find themselves on the verge of divorce. 115 min.

“Control”
United Kingdom – March 24
Directed by Anton Corbijn
Based on Deborah Curtis's biography “Touching from a Distance,” “Control” follows the rise and fall of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, from his youth to his suicide on the eve of the band’s first American tour in 1980. 122 min.