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[Picturehouse is back]

The Straits Times (Life!)
Monday, February 27, 2006

CATHAY'S arthouse cinema Picturehouse will re-open with a film festival which will run from March 24 to 29.

Among the fest's movies at the new Cathay Building in Handy Road will be Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times, a triptych about love set in three different eras, and starring Shu Qi and Chang Chen.

Another Asian movie will be the psycho-thriller Invisible Waves, by Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang and featuring a pan-Asian cast of Asano Tadanobu, Eric Tsang and Gang Hye Jung.

Singapore director Gloria Chee's Smell of Rain, a story about the anguish of youth, starring Nathaniel and Trey Ho, will also be shown.

Also playing will be Murderball, a documentary on quadriplegic rugby players in the United States, and The Child (L'enfant), a French movie by directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and about a young couple living on the margin with their baby.

A World Cinema offering will be British director Mark Donford-May's U-Carmen Ekhayelitsha, a film sung and spoken in the Xhosa language and based on Bizet's opera Carmen.

Tickets cost $10 each. Till March 19, those who sign up on website thepicturehouse.com.sg for a Picturehouse e-newsletter stand to win free movie passes to the festival.

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For more info, check out:

http://www.thepicturehouse.com.sg/upcoming.htm
and
http://www.thepicturehouse.com.sg/coming.htm

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