“Evolution” opens at the Ross Jan. 20 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Also showing is “Jackie”.
Creepy, provocative and aesthetically absorbing, “Evolution” marks a satisfying step forward for director/co-writer Lucile Hadžihalilović.
This eerily seductive mind-bender is a dark, dreamlike descent into the depths of the unknown. Ten-year-old Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives in a remote seaside village populated only by boys his age and adult women. But when Nicolas discovers a dead boy with a red starfish on his stomach, he begins to question everything about his existence. What are the half-remembered images he recalls, as if from another life? If the woman he lives with is not his mother, then who is she? And what awaits the boys when they are all suddenly confined to a hospital?
“Jackie,” which is rated R for brief strong violence and some language, offers an alluring peek into a beloved American public figure’s private world.
This film, directed by Pablo Larrain, is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). “Jackie” places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of “Camelot” that they created and loved so well.
Both “Evolution” and “Jackie” play at the Ross through Jan. 26. For more information, including show times, click here or call 402-472-5353.
