Releases
'The Woman in the Fifth,' a Suspenseful Tour de Force Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, Opens an Exclusive San Francisco Engagement June 15 at SF Film Society Cinema
Kristin Scott Thomas and Ethan Hawke Imbue Devious Story Set in Paris’s Fifth Arrondissement with Chemistry that Is Oedipal, Spiteful and Sexy
5/22/2012
Pawel Pawlikowski’s riveting drama The Woman in the Fifth (France/Poland/England 2011), starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Ethan Hawke, opens an exclusive San Francisco engagement June 15 at San Francisco Film Society Cinema (1746 Post Street).
In this unsettling thriller set in Paris’s little-seen Fifth Arrondissement, an unhappy American writer attempts to mend fences with his wife and young daughter but instead falls under the spell of a mysterious woman. Soon after arriving in the City of Light, author Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) is robbed and forced to stay in a dingy hotel where he’s given a strange and covert job. When he subsequently meets the beguiling translator Margit (Kristen Scott Thomas), she spurs him to start writing again, but nightmarish hallucinations haunt his hours. As the plot thickens and the writer’s mental instability grows, enigmatic subsidiary characters offer tantalizing clues to his predicament. With creepy visuals and dark humor, this adaptation of Douglas Kennedy’s international bestseller offers intelligent chills, subtle performances and the most beautiful locale in the world. Written by Pawel Pawlikowski. Photographed by Ryszard Lenczewski. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Ethan Hawke, Joanna Kulig, Samir Guesmi. In English and French with subtitles. 83 min. Distributed by ATO Pictures.
Watch a trailer here.
Showtimes 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 pm
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office opens May 23 online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
To request an interview contact hhart@sffs.org.
To request screeners contact bproctor@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
At SF Film Society Cinema, the stylish state-of-the art theater located in the New People building at 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan) in Japantown, the San Francisco Film Society offers its acclaimed exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events on a daily year-round basis. For complete up-to-date information on all SFFS Cinema programming, including buying tickets, visit sffs.org/cinema.
More upcoming San Francisco Film Society programs
Through May 24: Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle and Le Rayon Vert (Summer)
Opening May 25: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Opening June 1: Hide Away
June 2 only: An Evening of Wholphin Love
Eight consecutive Saturdays June 2–July 21: The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Opening June 8: The Wages of Fear
June 21: Master Class: The Politics of the Cutting Room Floor
Opening June 22: Found Memories Júlia Murat’s disarming meditation on memory, aging and letting go of the past was a hit at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival.
June 22–July 8: KinoTek: Adriane Colburn: Ways, Points and Means In this installation, Colburn presents the sea as a persistently foreign body, an overlooked wilderness that one attempts to comprehend through navigational technologies, optics and cartography.
Opening June 29: Corpo Celeste Alice Rohrwacher’s assured first feature mixes neo-realism with a touch of Buñuelian satire.
Opening July 6: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Back by popular demand, the handsome, persuasive documentary about the so-called grandmother of performance art which sold out every SFIFF 2012 show.
San Francisco Film Society
Building on a legacy of more than 50 years of bringing the best in world cinema to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Film Society is a national leader in exhibition, education and filmmaker services.
The Film Society presents 365 days of exhibition each year, reaching a total audience of 130,000 people. Its acclaimed education program introduces international, independent and documentary cinema and media literacy to more than 10,000 teachers and students and presents more than 100 classes and workshops annually. Through Filmmaker360, the Film Society’s filmmaker services program, essential creative and business services and funding totaling millions of dollars are provided to deserving filmmakers of all levels.
The Film Society seeks to elevate all aspects of film culture, offering a wide range of activities that engage emotions, inspire action, change perceptions and advance knowledge. A 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, it is largely donor and member supported. Patronage and membership provides discounted prices, access to grants and residencies, private events and a wealth of other benefits.
For more information visit sffs.org.
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In this unsettling thriller set in Paris’s little-seen Fifth Arrondissement, an unhappy American writer attempts to mend fences with his wife and young daughter but instead falls under the spell of a mysterious woman. Soon after arriving in the City of Light, author Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) is robbed and forced to stay in a dingy hotel where he’s given a strange and covert job. When he subsequently meets the beguiling translator Margit (Kristen Scott Thomas), she spurs him to start writing again, but nightmarish hallucinations haunt his hours. As the plot thickens and the writer’s mental instability grows, enigmatic subsidiary characters offer tantalizing clues to his predicament. With creepy visuals and dark humor, this adaptation of Douglas Kennedy’s international bestseller offers intelligent chills, subtle performances and the most beautiful locale in the world. Written by Pawel Pawlikowski. Photographed by Ryszard Lenczewski. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Ethan Hawke, Joanna Kulig, Samir Guesmi. In English and French with subtitles. 83 min. Distributed by ATO Pictures.
Watch a trailer here.
Showtimes 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 pm
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office opens May 23 online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
To request an interview contact hhart@sffs.org.
To request screeners contact bproctor@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
At SF Film Society Cinema, the stylish state-of-the art theater located in the New People building at 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan) in Japantown, the San Francisco Film Society offers its acclaimed exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events on a daily year-round basis. For complete up-to-date information on all SFFS Cinema programming, including buying tickets, visit sffs.org/cinema.
More upcoming San Francisco Film Society programs
Through May 24: Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle and Le Rayon Vert (Summer)
Opening May 25: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Opening June 1: Hide Away
June 2 only: An Evening of Wholphin Love
Eight consecutive Saturdays June 2–July 21: The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Opening June 8: The Wages of Fear
June 21: Master Class: The Politics of the Cutting Room Floor
Opening June 22: Found Memories Júlia Murat’s disarming meditation on memory, aging and letting go of the past was a hit at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival.
June 22–July 8: KinoTek: Adriane Colburn: Ways, Points and Means In this installation, Colburn presents the sea as a persistently foreign body, an overlooked wilderness that one attempts to comprehend through navigational technologies, optics and cartography.
Opening June 29: Corpo Celeste Alice Rohrwacher’s assured first feature mixes neo-realism with a touch of Buñuelian satire.
Opening July 6: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Back by popular demand, the handsome, persuasive documentary about the so-called grandmother of performance art which sold out every SFIFF 2012 show.
San Francisco Film Society
Building on a legacy of more than 50 years of bringing the best in world cinema to the Bay Area, the San Francisco Film Society is a national leader in exhibition, education and filmmaker services.
The Film Society presents 365 days of exhibition each year, reaching a total audience of 130,000 people. Its acclaimed education program introduces international, independent and documentary cinema and media literacy to more than 10,000 teachers and students and presents more than 100 classes and workshops annually. Through Filmmaker360, the Film Society’s filmmaker services program, essential creative and business services and funding totaling millions of dollars are provided to deserving filmmakers of all levels.
The Film Society seeks to elevate all aspects of film culture, offering a wide range of activities that engage emotions, inspire action, change perceptions and advance knowledge. A 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, it is largely donor and member supported. Patronage and membership provides discounted prices, access to grants and residencies, private events and a wealth of other benefits.
For more information visit sffs.org.
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