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DYNAMITE WARRIOR
Unrated, 106 minutes
In this historical film making its debut at the New York Asian Film festival, Jone Bang Fai is a young man riddled with grief and bent on revenge after witnessing his parents’ murder by a callous and malicious killer in 1920’s rural Thailand. The only information Jone has as to the killer’s identity is the memory of a tattoo-covered man who is part of an organized group of cattle rustlers. Jone makes it his mission to stop all cattle rustlers and in the process return each head of cattle back to its rightful owner.
THE METHOD
Unrated, 115 minutes
In this film by the Argentine director Marcelo Piñeyro, seven candidates compete for an executive position at a multinational company as the streets of Madrid are filled with anti-globalization demonstrators.
From the outset, there is a palpably tense, competitive atmosphere among the group. Feelings of distrust increase when they realize they are aspiring for the same position, and that the Gronholm Method (a human resources strategy supposedly imported from America) is being used to assess their respective merits.
Thecandidates—Carlos(Eduardo Noriega), Nieves (Najwa Nimri), Fernando (Eduard Fernández), Ana (Adriana Ozores), and Enrique (Ernesto Alterio) — find themselves pitted against one another in a contest that elicits fear, suspicion, paranoia, and betrayal. The humiliation these people are willing to endure or inflict on others for the sake of the job is a chilling testament to the explosion of corporate culture.
