Fri, Oct 11 @ 6:15 PM & Sun, Oct 13 @ 11:15 AM
at the Mill Valley Film Festival in San Rafael
Mieletön Elokuu (or August Fools) is the name of the Finn movie to be shown at the Mill Valley Film Festival this year on at Rafael 2 and Rafael 3 in San Rafael. Starring is old Kaurismäki film heroine Kati Outinen who won Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival the same year that Aki Kaurismäki's Man Without a Past won the top feature film award at Cannes. Other Finnish film notables in this picture are Elena Leeve, Esko Salminen and Laura Birn. Director is Taru Mäkelä,. The setting is the "Festival of Friendship" in Helsinki in the 1962 Cold War era which brought tens of .thousands of young people from both sides of the Iron Curtain to celebrate. The place was crawling with both CIA and KGB agents. It's not as grim as it sounds as the film is essentially a romantic comedy. A Czech saxophonist ((Miroslav Etzler) arrives to pursue an old Finnish flame Elsa (Outinen) who owns a millinery shop and is a part-time clairvoyant . The languages spoken are Finnish, Czech and English and the film has English subtitles.
Read more about the film at http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=64016~dc929e81-dd77-4c40-bcf3-47ec6a85c146&epguid=c612d5b0-2882-4166-821c-fe5114bf8af4&
The Rafael screens are at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center at 1118 4th street in downtown San Rafael (between A and B Streets.)
General Admission $14. Seniors 65+ and Students: $12.50. Advisedly, tickets should be reserved in advance on line at mvff.com and picked up at the Will Call window at the Rafael at show time. Or toll-free phone at 877.874.6833 voice mail. The main disadvantage to the phone order is an extra $10 convenience fee.
Hope to see a lot of you there.
-- Harry Siitonen
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