Episode 54 - After The Storm

Episode 54 of One Week Only! Our key film this week is "After the Storm," a Japanese family drama about a divorced father with a gambling addiction, struggling to reconnect with his ex-wife and their young son. Directed by the great Hirokazu Koreeda (Our Little Sister), and starring Hiroshi Abe, Yoko Maki & Kirin Kiki, this is a intimate portrait of a fractured family that grapples with powerful themes of fatherhood and family legacy. It is now playing in theaters in New York and Los Angeles. (42:30)

Our interview this week is for the documentary "Ovarian Psycos" about a woman of color bike brigade in East LA, created by women dealing with family and cultural struggles and looking for a feminist community. We interview co-directors Joanna Sokolowski & Kate Trumbull-LaValle about the coming into the world of these cyclists and capturing on the film the struggles they deal with from sexists, racists and traditionalists. The film premiered at SWSX last year, and comes to PBS on Independent Lens on March 27th. (58:00)

We also review the new Terrence Malick film "Song to Song" starring Rooney Mara & Ryan Gosling (15:30); and the WWI period film "Frantz" by François Ozon, starring Paula Beer & Pierre Niney(30:30).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com