Melnitz Movies and the Graduate Students Association present a film screening of Viva Riva! Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga in person for a Q&A following the screening.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Melnitz Hall
UCLA campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095

In Lingala and French with English subtitles  -- 96 minutes, 35mm
Rated R

Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline. Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga’s Kinshasa is a seductively vibrant, lawless, fuel-starved sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas, bordellos and nightclubs and Riva is its perfect embodiment.

Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2010, Berlin Film Festival 2011
Winner of 6 African Movie Academy Awards, including Best Film and Best Director

"A blast from start to finish" – Robert Koehler, VARIETY
"A bold crime action film that’s vicious, sexy and throbbingly realistic." – Maggie Lee, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Director/Screenwriter/Producer: Djo Tunda Wa Munga
Starring: Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Diplome Amekindra, Alex Herabo
Cinematography: Antoine Roch
A Music Box Films release

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Also playing this week at Melnitz….

FILM SOCIALISME
Thursday, May 26 at 7:30 PM

James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall

The latest film from Jean-Luc Godard, a symphony in three movements:

• THINGS SUCH AS: A Mediterranean cruise. Numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday...
• OUR EUROPE: At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
• OUR HUMANITIES: Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.

Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2010, Toronto International Film Festival 2010, New York Film Festival 2010

Director/Screenwriter: Jean-Luc Godard; In French, German, Russian (and more) with English subtitles -- 101 minutes, Digibeta
Trailer
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Sponsor(s): Melnitz Movies and the Graduate Students Association.