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No Age performs “The Bear”
Day of show tickets are available at The Triple Door, online at www.thetripledoor.net or by phone at 206-838.4333.
When a rockslide kills a mother bear, her cub Douce becomes an orphan in the threatening Canadian Rockies. Luckily, she encounters Bart, a full-grown male bear on the run from hunters after mauling their pack animals. Though the ill-tempered Bart initially rejects Douce’s companionship, the cub wins his affection by licking Bart’s gunshot wounds. Psychedelic mushroom trips and a rendezvous with Doc (the effeminate male bear who plays Bart’s love interest) are woodland fun at its finest, but the invasive fear of being hunted drives The Bear forward. Staged with trained bears and filmed in the Italian Dolomites, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film seems like realism in drag as documentary. Yet it’s this feeling that makes The Bear a magical discovery and a welcome departure from the ordinary wildlife exposé.
Los Angeles duo No Age will add their musical interpretation to the film by performing original music during the screening. No Age’s Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt garnered acclaim with their debut album Weirdo Rippers (2007) and, after signing with the Seattle-based label Sub Pop, released Nouns (2008) to similar critical success. As Douce and Bart sift through the maladies and joys of their precarious existence, so too does No Age’s music filter raw sensation through art-punk chaos. The 7pm screening is all ages, 9:30pm screening is 21+
Sponsor:
KEXP 90.3 Seattle
Cast & Crew
Director: Jean-Jaques Annaud
Producer: Claude Berri
Editor: Noëlle Boisson
Screenwriter: Gérard Brach, based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood
Cinematographer: Philippe Rousselot
Music: Philippe Sarde
Principal Cast: Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe
Filmography: His Majesty Minor (2007); Two Brothers (2004); Enemy at the Gates (2001); Seven Years in Tibet (1997); The Name of the Rose (1986)
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