Today’s Schedule for L.A. International Film Festival

The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival opens today for two weeks at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas. Here is today’s schedule:

“A Thorn Under the Fingernail’

Hungary, 1988, 90 minutes

6:25 p.m.

Sandor Sara’s taut, low-key political thriller probes brutality and corruption past and present in Hungary with an exceedingly bitter, outspoken tone. On the whole this is a spare, impressive film, set principally in a vast open plain where the film’s hero (Gyorgy Cserhalmi), a celebrated, controversial artist now lives as a shepherd. The myriad complications, not to mention an array of inferences and references, however, are not easily conveyed via English subtitles, and the film seems often inaccessible and tough-going as a result.