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Double Feature: CURLING, 2010, New Yorker Films, 92 min. In this blacker-than-black comedy by Quebecois director Denis Cote, overprotective misanthrope and bowling alley employee Jean-Francois refuses to let daughter Julyvonne attend school or have regular medical checkups. Yet the two-person family's neurotically ordered private world begins to fray when the nearby snow-blanketed Canadian countryside becomes the site of a few horrific - and possibly connected - events.In French with English subtitles. Los Angeles Premiere! THE SALESMAN (LE VENDEUR), 2011, 107 min. Friendly, widowed car salesman Marcel prides himself on remembering every customer he's ever had, and on holding the title "Employee of the Month" for 16 consecutive years. Yet the auto business in frigid rural Quebec is waning, and the onset of a tragedy irrevocably shakes up Marcel's comfortable rinse-and-repeat existence. In French with English subtitles.

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What is Curling/The Salesman about?: Double Feature: CURLING, 2010, New Yorker Films, 92 min. In this blacker-than-black comedy by Quebecois director Denis Cote, overprotective misanthrope and bowling alley employee Jean-Francois refuses to let daughter Julyvonne attend school or have regular medical checkups. Yet the two-person family's neurotically ordered private world begins to fray when the nearby snow-blanketed Canadian countryside becomes the site of a few horrific - and possibly connected - events.In French with English subtitles.

Los Angeles Premiere! THE SALESMAN (LE VENDEUR), 2011, 107 min. Friendly, widowed car salesman Marcel prides himself on remembering every customer he's ever had, and on holding the title "Employee of the Month" for 16 consecutive years. Yet the auto business in frigid rural Quebec is waning, and the onset of a tragedy irrevocably shakes up Marcel's comfortable rinse-and-repeat existence. In French with English subtitles.