Alice Dwyer Movies
- 2008
lejandro Cardenas Amelio's My Mother's Tears tells the tale of a young German immigrant who fled from Argentina with his parents in the late 1970's. Seven year old Alex discovers one day that he has telekinetic powers, but this does not keep him from suffering the traditional growing pains experienced by all boys. While his father mopes about wishing to be back in Argentina, his mother adjusts to the new surroundings and begins to thrive. As the family drifts apart, Alex uses his powers to try to bring everyone together. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Adrian Gössel, Rafael Ferro, (more)
- 2006
Portuguese director Hugo Vieira da Silva's feature Body Rice joins Gus Van Sant's Gerry, Jose Maria de Orbe's The Straight Line, and other recent motion pictures that pontificate at length on the endless vapidity inherent in banal lives. Vieira da Silva chooses as his subject a cadre of German teenagers shuttled off to a social reintegration program in Portugal, where they wander endlessly through the countryside searching, in vain, for personal significance. Sylta Fee Wegmann, Julika Jenkins, and Alice Dwyer co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sylta Fee Wegmann, Alice Dwyer, (more)
- 2003
German director Hans-Christian Schmid teams up again with writing partner Michael Gutmann for the ensemble film Lichter (Distant Lights). The film takes place during a few days around the Oder River, which acts as a border between Poland and Germany. Several different interrelated stories involve young adults who smuggle cigarettes, a businessman who sells black-market mattresses, and a cab driver trying to get his daughter a communion dress. While trying to cross the river at night, Ukranian Kolya (Ivan Shvedov) is arrested while two other Ukranians (Sergei Frolov and Anna Yanovskaya) are helped by the cab driver. Lichter premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ivan Shvedov, Sergei Frolov, (more)
