steven m.l. Aronson as his source material in order to revisit one of the 20th century's most notorious family tragedies. Julianne moore (safe, short cuts) plays barbara daly, a damaged but beautiful woman who elevates her status when she marries brooks baekeland (stephen dillane), heir to a plastics fortune. The birth of a son, tony (eddie redmayne), does nothing to solve brooks and barbara's conflicted relationship. As tony grows older and the family relocates from new york city to paris to spain to ibiza throughout the 1950s and '60s, barbara's fanatical smothering has left her son a sheepish wreck. The fact that he's homosexual only makes matters worse. Unable to escape from his mother's clutches, tony begins to lose his mind, spurring a fatal act that will destroy the family. Savage grace finds moore delivering one of her most electrifying and challenging performances. She brings humanity and credibility to a character who is deeply damaged. Kalin's bold decision to present six chapters in the family's saga, as opposed to taking a more traditional route, results in a richer and more intellectual work. Let it be known, savage grace has some truly dark material that will shock many viewers. But kalin's artistry as a director keeps it from feeling like mere exploitation.

the film is set in 19th-century france, when the world was a seemingly much more innocent place. Underneath the surface, however, lurk infidelities and other dark secrets. Ryno de marigny (fu'ad ait aattou) is about to marry the beautiful and sweet hermangarde (roxane mesquida). He is so devoted to her that he has decided to make a clean break from his ongoing affair with the tempestuous vellini (asia argento). One day, hermangarde's grandmother, the comtesse d'artelles (yolande moreau), convinces ryno to tell of his affair with vellini, which he does. By the end of his story, even she is concerned that he is in too deep with vellini and that the couple's torrid romance will continue. Nonetheless, ryno and hermangarde get married, but vellini's lure proves too strong a temptation. Breillat's biggest production to date also feels like one of her most personal. While the film has a sedate faade, it is in keeping with the graphic work of her previous films. Argento is a perfect vellini, at once carnal and terrifying but also sensual and alluring. The striking ait aattou, who makes his first screen appears, confirms breillat's gift of getting the most out of non-actors. The last mistress is a lush period piece that nonetheless has a universal, modern message, and it makes many daring statements about love, lust, and romance.

Genghis Blues. Together they own and operate Wadi Rum Productions. Accompanying Beyond the Call on the Southern Circuit Tour, Adrian Belic is a member of the Film Arts Foundation and the International Documentary Association. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and has served as director of an environmental information center in Los Angeles. Born in the U.S. and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he spent many summers during his childhood behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe with his family from Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Ed Artis, James Laws and Walt Ratterman are three middle-aged men whose idea of adventure is taking desperately needed food and medicine into the worlds most forbidding yet naturally beautiful places, often at the front lines of war. Following the motto of High Adventure and Service to Humanity, their specialty is going where death from landmines, bullets or bombs is as frequent as death from hunger, disease or the elements, helping out in places that other aid organizations deem too dangerous. One of the most honored documentaries in recent memory, Beyond the Call inspires as it entertains. The film has screened at more than 100 film festivals on five continents and has garnered 35 awards. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, this compelling story has received the Washington DC International Film Festival Audience Award, the Telluride Mountain Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, the Palm Springs International Film Festival Best of Festival award, the Santa Fe Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, and the Taos Film Festival Human Rights Award, among numerous other awards and honors.