FACETS CINÉMATHÈQUE
March 2007
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SACRIFICE / LEPER / SKY BURIAL:
3 FILMS BY ELLEN BRUNO
"It's the depth of Bruno's commitment-not to abstract principles of liberal idealism, but to flesh-and-blood people-that creates tension within her films."
-Village Voice
"Her work takes risks with form to imply that individual suffering and transcendence are but particles in a river of spiritual energy that dwarfs geography and time."
-New York Times

½ "These unusual and moving films...are all imbued with a profound, humanistic vision of the world and its people, and rendered with the compassion and clear eye we expect from the best documentary filmmakers."
-Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Recommended! "Riveting...a social activist incensed by the human rights abuses she's witnessed, [Bruno] seems to inspire in her subjects an openness toward the camera"
-Chicago Reader
Ellen Bruno is an independent filmmaker of spectacular courage and artistry. Filming in the Far East, she records secret worlds whose existences are known, first-hand, by only a handful of Westerners - in part, because it is easier and safer to simply ignore such disturbing truths.
Sacrifice examines the selling of Burmese girls (some as young as 12) into prostitution in Thailand;
Leper travels to Nepal to meet a society of lepers in a remote village, victims of a disease that has ravaged people's lives since ancient times;
Sky Burial records a Tibetan monastery ritual in which corpses are consumed by huge vultures, allowing the cycle of life to continue as the spirits of the deceased merge with the sky. (
Film Forum)
Directed by Ellen Bruno, U.S.A., 1998-2005, BetaSP, Total Running Time: 85 mins. In English, Burmese, Thai, Nepali and Tibetan with English subtitles.
Bruno Films
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New York Times
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Showtimes:
Fri., Mar. 23 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat.-Sun., Mar. 24-25 at 3, 5, & 7 pm
Mon.-Thurs., Mar. 26-29 at 7 & 9 pm
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