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from the issue of April 28, 2005
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Ross shows Sea Inside, Nobody Knows
Javier Bardem performs in Alejandro Amenabar's drama about dying with dignity, The Sea Inside, opening at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center April 29.
The Sea Inside won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the year at the 2005 Academy Awards.
The 35-year-old Bardem plays 55-year-old Ramon Sampedro, a Galician who broke his neck as a young man and has spent more than a quarter of a century confined to bed as a quadriplegic.
Reflecting on his past and considering his future, he chooses to die, petitioning the courts for permission to be euthanized. His radical decision sets off controversy throughout Spain - as well as in his own house - where his family and friends all have different opinions on the fate he has chosen.
While Ramon's father and brother refuse to help him die, and his nephew, Javi, tries to understand his uncle's decision.
Ramon is surrounded by women who virtually fight over him - Rosa, a single mother of two who visits him to talk about her difficult life; Manuela, his sister-in-law who takes care of his daily needs; Gene, who works for the Death with Dignity organization; and Julia, a married lawyer with a secret of her own.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, The Sea Inside is rated PG-13, for intense depiction of mature thematic material, by the Motion Picture Association of America.
Nobody Knows, written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda (known in this country for his 1999 movie After Life, about a group of people who are allowed to carry one memory with them when they die), is based on a real-life case of child desertion that caused a public scandal in Japan in 1988.
Yuya Yagira was named Best Actor at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of the older brother trying desperately to support his three younger siblings in Nobody Knows, opening at the Ross on Friday, April 29
Kore-eda also wrote, produced and edited the film, which was nominated for the Palm d'Or and was Japan's entry for the Academy Awards.
Yagira stars as Akira, a determined and resourceful 12-year-old boy forced to take care of his siblings every time their mother goes away for extended periods of time.
In order to remain in their apartment, the three youngest children are not allowed outside or else the landlord, who does not know they live there, will evict them.
Akira tries to teach his sisters and brother, as none of them attends school, with varying success.
They have no friends, save for Saki, an offbeat outsider. When the their mother disappears and money starts running out, the children are faced with severe problems and tragedy lurks.
Nobody Knows is rated PG-13, for mature thematic elements and some sexual references, by the Motion Picture Association of America.
The Sea Inside and Nobody Knows are showing at the Ross from April 29 through May 12.
Show times are available at www.TheRoss.org, by consulting your newspaper, or by calling the film information line at 472-5353.
GO TO: ISSUE OF APRIL 28
ARTS HEADLINES FOR APRIL 28
Lentz Center hosts jades
American Life in Poetry
NU, Mizzou baseball broadcast on NET1
Palmerton retrospective exhibit opens April 29
Ross shows Sea Inside, Nobody Knows
Theatre tours Voice of the Prairie statewide
UNL Clay Club's Pottery Sale April 29-30
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