Foreign Films This Fall

Amélie star Audrey Tautou stars as legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel in this biopic penned by director Anne Fontaine. Coco Avant Chanel features dresses from the Chanel collection and Chanel art director Karl Lagerfeld created the stylish's films accessories and costumes. (Opens September 25, 2009)

Night and Day is Hong Sang-soo's first movie to be set outside of Korea and follows the escapades of Kim Sung-nam (Kim Yeong-ho), a young painter who flees to Paris after he is accused of smoking marijuana. He stays in a guest house, cries on the phone with his wife, and falls in love with a pixie-like Korean woman who also has artistic aspirations. (Opens September 30, 2009)

Set in Santiago, Chile, Sebastián Silva The Maid is the story of Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) who has served as the live-in maid for the Valdes family for 23 years. Neither truly a member of the family nor simply a servant, she inhabits an undefined space somewhere in between. Threatened when the family decides to bring on extra help, she engages in a series of increasingly frantic acts to hold on to her position in this sharp comedic drama about family, class and self-discovery.(Opens October 16, 2009).

A grieving couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) are the subject of evil forces during a cabin getaway shortly after their son has died in this horror film from auteur Lars von Trier. Viewer be warned: this film first shocked and provoked audiences at the Cannes Film Festival and continues to do so. (Opens October 23, 2009)

In the second feature by Karin Albou (Little Jerusalem), Tunisia in the 1940's, where the Nazi occupation threatens a friendship between a Jewish teenage (Lizzie Brochere) and her best friend, a Muslin girl. (Opens October 30, 2009)

John Woo (Face/Off, The Killers returns with historical epic, the most expensive film of his career. The chancellor of the Eastn Han Dynsant embarks on a campaign to rid the empire of two warlords. Tony Leung, Wei Zhao, and Fengyi Zhang star. (Opens November 20, 2009)

After her brilliant performance in Pedro Almodovar's Volver, Penelope Cruz reteams with the ebulliant Spanish filmmaker for his latest melodrama, the tragic love story about a blind screenwriter who once loved a younger prostitute. (Opens November 20, 2009)

Jacques Audiard's moving new drama tells the story of an illiterate 19-year-old (Tahar Rahim) sentenced to six years in prison who learns to survive by playing warring gangs against each other. (Opens December 4, 2009)

Sandrine Bonnaire stars as a Corsican chambermaid determined to master the game of chess; she is instructed by an American doctor (Kevin Kline). This is the first film of Caroline Bottaro who wrote and directed. With Dominic Gould and Jennifer Beals. (Opens December 11, 2009)

Filmmaker Michael Haneke won the Palme D'Or for The White Ribbon, an eerie black-and-white exploration of the roots of Nazi terror. Set in a farming village in Germany, members of children's choir fall victim to bizarre accidents. (Opens December 30, 2009)