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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy-<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Intimate Strangers (R)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, November 12<BR>
7:00 PM<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, November 13 & 14<BR>
4:45 & 7:00 PM<BR>
</B>Tickets: $5 adults<BR>
KFS passes valid for Sunday shows<BR>
<B>(See Reviews below)<BR>
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November/December 2004-<BR>
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<B>The Corporation (NR)<BR>
</B>Nov 19 at 7:00 PM<BR>
Nov 20 & 21 at 4:00 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Spiderman 2 (PG13)<BR>
</B>Nov 26 - 28<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Maria Full of Grace (R)<BR>
</B>Dec 3 at 7:00 PM<BR>
Dec 4 & 5 at 4:30 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>It’s a Wonderful Life<BR>
</B>Dec 10 at 7:00 PM<BR>
Dec 11 & 12 at 4:15 & 7:00 PM<BR>
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<B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adults, $2 children 12 and younger. <BR>
KFS passes accepted for Sunday movies<BR>
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508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
For more information, call 208-882-4127.<BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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<H2>INTIMATE STRANGERS<BR>
</H2>(Confidences trop intimes)<BR>
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Directed by Patrice Leconte; <BR>
Written (in French, with English subtitles) by Jérôme Tonnerre<BR>
Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes<BR>
<B>This film is rated R. Advisory: This film contains lewd sex talk.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As Reviewed by Kimberly Jones writing for the Austin (Texas) Chronicle<BR>
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This modest French-language film follows the time-honored cinematic tradition of plot as spearheaded by a simple twist of fate. Case in point: Had Anna gone six doors down to the left, as instructed, she might have endured years of psychoanalysis and prescription drugs. But Anna, a bit of a ditz when it comes to directions, goes right instead of left and winds up not at the office of Dr. Monnier, her new psychoanalyst, but at the office of a mild-mannered, meticulous tax attorney named William. <BR>
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<B><U>As reviewed by Mick LaSalle writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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The premise of "Intimate Strangers" sounds like the basis for a farce or screwball comedy: A troubled woman, making her first visit to a psychiatrist, goes through the wrong door and pours her heart out to a tax lawyer. Used to hearing people's confidences, the lawyer doesn't realize the mistake until the woman is so far into her story that he's too embarrassed to say anything. Besides, she's beautiful. And he's lonely. And she's fiery and intriguing, while he's placid and bored stiff with his life. So he lets her make another appointment. <BR>
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In the hands of director Patrice Leconte, this story becomes the basis for a strange almost-thriller, a psychological drama with undertones of romance and danger. Mostly, the film is a series of two-person conversations in which the woman talks about her abusive husband and his sexual problems, and the tax accountant listens. But "listens" is too weak a word. He discreetly devours her every word and watches her as though the Eternal Feminine, by some divine grace, has decided to smoke, pace and tell stories in his office. He's so happy that he's afraid to smile. He doesn't want to breathe on this situation. <BR>
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Throughout the film, we always know what the lawyer is up to. But the woman remains a mystery. Is she truthful? Is she entrancing and neurotic or mad and destructive? She becomes more puzzling and more alluring as the film wears on. <BR>
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Is "Intimate Strangers" a romance? A thriller? A drama? It is, as they say, what it is. It's a movie by people who know there are few things more thrilling, or that seem more perilous, than meeting the romantic "other" and having those first, careful conversations. <BR>
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<B><U>As Reviewed by Stephen Holden writing for the New York Times<BR>
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In Patrice Leconte's sardonic psychological thriller, ''Intimate Strangers,'' Sandrine Bonnaire portrays a Gallic answer to one of Alfred Hitchcock's sleek blond women of mystery. Imagine the Grace Kelly of ''Rear Window'' or the Kim Novak of ''Vertigo'' sprawled seductively on an analyst's couch, smoking cigarettes and confiding her sexual frustration to a repressed, wide-eyed shrink who is obsessed with her. <BR>
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''Intimate Strangers,'' directed by Mr. Leconte from a screenplay by Jérôme Tonnerre, establishes its mood of playful erotic suspense in the first 10 minutes and sustains its cat-and-mouse game between therapist and patient through variations that are by turns amusing, titillating and mildly scary. <BR>
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''Intimate Strangers'' takes place less in the real world than in the realm of voyeuristic fantasy -- in other words, in the realm of film itself, which allows us to ogle beautiful people under the cover of darkness. <BR>
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Another variation on the same idea drives the recent and wonderful Italian film ''Facing Windows,'' in which attractive neighbors who have surreptitiously observed and desired each other finally connect and face reality. Both films involve a lot of staring out of windows and gazing at reflections. <BR>
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In the spirit of the best Hitchcock, ''Intimate Strangers'' is seriously light. Or is it lightly serious? <BR>
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<I>Film reviews researched and edited by Peter Haggart<BR>
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