CINEMA PARADISO is a regular movie screening and discussion held by ruangarsip, an alternative public library for Medan citizens. ruangarsip will screen beautiful pieces, underrated works, arthouse moving pictures to the audience every two weeks. To be sure, this is not your daily entertainment, and it will lead you to new extravagant journey of the astonishing cinema.
Ever got brokenhearted? Sometime when you had it, you just barely can divide what’s dream and what’s real. Is there a way out? These two movies on the program will show you one thing: Drown yourself onto imagination and you’ll find the peace.
On its first program, ruangarsip, will perform two works from two most ingenious directors. They bring most imaginative movies we’ve rarely seen. The movies tell two stories about two young men struggling with their feeling. Gladly, it’s not just a freaking film from delusional mind. It is served on sweet evocative way. One is a childlike man, who lives two life’s fantasy and reality. While having crush on his neighbor. Another one is a man who desperate after his girlfriend leaving him for another man. He tells a story to a Romanian child, to secretly help him suicide.
The first is Michel Gondry, mostly known by his work on some most creative music videos on MTV these past two decades. His production is kind of childish and playful creation. You can find it on his unique second feature La science des rêves (2006) that we will screen.
La science des rêves (2006)
Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg
English and French with English subtitle.
Synopsis:
After his father’s death, Stephane Miroux moves to France, where his mother has promised him an apartment and a job that will channel his artistic talent. The latter turns out to be stultifying cut-and-paste work on cheap calendars, but the former finds him a possible soulmate in next-door neighbor, Stephanie. Stymied by the challenges of the real world, Miroux frequently drops into fantasies where simple stop-motion and cobbled-together cardboard sets lend a sweet, ramshackle innocence to his escapism. Buoyed by Stephanie’s participation in his flights of fancy, Bernal becomes attached to her, and sometimes it’s them against the mundane world. But she doesn’t always appreciate his childishness and unpredictability, and he can’t decide whether he wants to venture far enough into the real world to meet her halfway.
The second is Tarsem Singh; his day job is commercial director for big brand. With his second feature The Fall (2006), he delivers striking fable to vivid life onscreen. Filmed over 20 countries all over the world include Bali. This might be an over-the-top ambitious movie, but the cinematography, the unique architecture and the breathtaking traditional art involving are just too good to be miss. And yes, as he said, he does not use CGI to produce the film.
The fall (2006)
Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru
English and Romanian with English subtitle.
Synopsis:
Roy is a depressed film stuntman with a broken back. Confined to a hospital and mooning over the woman who left him for the film’s leading man; he pretends to befriend with Alexandria, who’s also recuperating in the hospital after a fall. Making up an elaborate fairy tale for her, incorporating personnel from the hospital and situations from his own lovelorn life, he earns her trust, then refuses to continue the story until she steals him some pills, so he can kill himself. As the plot develops, the story he tells her reflects and winds into their real-life situation.
Enjoy watching and collect inspiration 
Film Programmer
Ivann Makhsara
Screening schedule and place will be announced soon. Yes, real soon
