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#13 - JRL 8046
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004
Subject: The Return
From: Samantha Levine <slevine@kino.com>

THE RETURNS STARTS THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6!

Winner of 3 Russian Film Academy Awards, including Best Film! In this haunting drama two brothers' lives are forever changed when the father who abandoned them suddenly reappears. Initially thrilled to reunite with the man they've known only from a faded photograph, the boys strain under the weight of his awkward and increasingly brutal attention. With one brother defiant and the other eager to please, a mysterious journey through the wild beauty of northern Russia escalates into a bitter test of will and shocking violence. Visually stunning and reminiscent of Andrei Tarkovsky's greatest works, THE RETURN was the winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film and Best First Film at the Venice Film Film Festival, Discovery of the Year at the European Film Awards and Best Foreign Film at the Palm Springs Film Festival.

Starts Friday, 2/6 at Lincoln Plaza Cinema (Broadway @ 62nd Street), Cinema Village (222 E. 12th Street near 5th Avenue) and Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue, Huntington, NY).
http://www.kino.com/thereturn/