2013 Movies : Adaptation

With Penelope Cruz • Emile Hirsch • Sergio Castellitto • Mira Furlan • Jane Birkin • Saadet Aksoy • Branko Djuric

Based on the runaway European bestseller by Margaret Mazzantini, Twice Born begins as the Italian professor Gemma (Cruz) heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo with her discontented teenaged son Pietro. She longs to show him the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, Diego (Hirsch)—but she is about to discover a long-hidden secret, one that will reveal far more to their knotted past than even her haunted memories can disclose.

With Ben Stiller • Sean Penn • Kathryn Hahn • Kristen Wiig • Patton Oswalt • Shirley MacLaine • Adam Scott • Josh Charles • Jay Kogen • Peter Morgan • John Goldwyn • Terence Bernie Hines • Samuel Goldwyn Jr. • Steven Conrad

Follows a day-dreamer who escapes his anonymous life by disappearing into a world of fantasies filled with heroism, romance and action. When his job along with that of his co-worker (Kristen Wiig) are threatened, Walter takes action in the real world embarking on a global journey that turns into an adventure more extraordinary than anything he could have ever imagined.

With Felicity Jones • Ralph Fiennes • Kristin Scott Thomas • Michelle Fairley • Abi Morgan • Tom Hollander • Tom Burke • John Kavanagh • Perdita Weeks

Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.