The thriller “Go For Sisters,” directed by two-time Academy Award nominee John Sayles, opens Nov. 22 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. “Go For Sisters” actress Yolonda Ross will attend the 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22 screening and hold a question and answer session with the audience.
Also showing at the Ross is “Blue is the Warmest Color” and “12 Years a Slave.”
“Go For Sisters” — which stars Edward James Olmos — is not rated and plays through Nov. 28; “Blue is the Warmest Color” is rated NC-17 and is held over through Nov. 28; and “12 Years A Slave” is rated R and plays through Dec. 5.
In “Go For Sisters, Bernice (played by Lisa Gay Hamilton) and Fontayne (Ross, who is originally from Omaha), grew up close friends, but took very different paths in life. Twenty years later, those paths cross with Fontayne a recovering addict fresh out of jail and Bernice as her friend’s new parole officer.
When Bernice’s son goes missing on the Mexican border — his shady partners in hiding or brutally murdered — she turns to Fontayne to find him. The pair enlist the services of Freddy Suárez (Olmos), a disgraced ex-LAPD detective, and plunge into the underbelly of Tijuana, quickly finding themselves in a potentially deadly cat-and-mouse game with a ruthless gang of human traffickers.
A coming-of-age drama, “Blue is the Warmest Color” made cinema history as the first film to ever earn the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or for both director and actresses.
In the film, Adèle Exarchopoulos plays Adèle, a passionate young woman who has a yearning she doesn’t quite understand. However, a chance encounter with the blue-haired Emma ignites Adèle’s flame. Played by Léa Seydoux, Emma becomes the love of Adèle’s life.
Director Abdellatif Kechiche charts the couple’s relationship over the course of several years, from the ecstasy of a first kiss to the agony of heartbreak.
In “12 Years A Slave,” Solomon Northrup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a free black man from upstate New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South in the years before the Civil War. Northrup is subjected to the cruelty of one malevolent owner (Michael Fassbender) and the unexpected kindness from another as he struggles to survive and maintain some of his dignity.
Finally, in the 12th year of slavery, a chance meeting with an abolitionist from Canada changes Northrup’s life forever.
The film is directed by Steve McQueen.
For more information, including show times, go to http://www.theross.org or call 402-472-5353.
