Lars and The Real Girl
Craig Gillepsie
USA
2007
The question is, as always: What would Jesus do?
106", 35mm
Color, English
about the film
Meet Lars Lindstrom, a socially awkward, painfully shy 27-year-old oddball who can barely stand the touch of another human being. He lives in the garage apartment behind his childhood home, where his brother Gus and her pregnant wife Karin live, and often try to cajole him out of his shell. Lars goes to the office, and then home, and then to church, and is always quiet. Now meet Bianca, Lars’ new girlfriend who makes Lars beam with happiness. She's life-size plastic doll. Gus is at first ashamed of his brother, but Karin sweetly talks Lars into taking Bianca to the family doctor for a check up. And so the small community in this snowy little town goes along with Lars’ flow. Lars and the Real Girl is magic time, a tightrope between improbability and reality tenderly navigated by Six Feet Under writer Nancy Oliver and director Craig Gillespie. It’s a love story, a powerful tribute to loneliness and past traumas, and an affectionate salute to human emotion gone awry. Ryan Gosling is simply amazing.
about the director
An Australian native, Craig Gillespie moved to the United States at the age of 19 to study illustration, graphic design and advertising at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is one of the best-known commercial directors working today. Following nominations in 2001 and 2002, he received the Directors Guild of America’s Best Commercial award in 2006 and Emmy’s Outstanding Commercial award and Golden Lion (Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival) in 2005. He made his feature directorial debut with the comedy Mr. Woodcock (2007).
awards
2007 National Board of Review: NBR Award for Best Original Screenplay
Toronto Film Festival
Austin Film Festival
Turin Film Festival
2008 Golden Globe nomination for Best Leading Actor: Ryan Gosling
screenings
| February 17 Sunday, 9:30 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2 |
| February 19 Tuesday, 7:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2 |
| February 24 Sunday, 7:30 PM AFM Budak Caddebostan |
| March 01 Saturday, 3:30 PM AFM CEPA Ankara 2 |
credits
- Director
- Craig Gillepsie
- Screenplay
- Nancy Oliver
- Cinematography
- Adam Kimmel
- Editing
- Tatiana S. Riegel
- Cast
- Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson
- Producer
- John Cameron, Sarah Aubrey, Sidney Kimmel
- Production Co.
- Sidney Kimmel Entertainment
- Distribütör
- UNP Filmcilik İnş. Tur. San. ve Tic. A.Ş.: Zeytinoğlu Cad. Yeşim sok. No:17, 34335 Etiler, İstanbul, Turkey, Tel: +90 212 352 2175 Fax: +90 212 352 2178
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