Kevin Kline screens new film for UN
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I’m not sure if the United Nations building has a built-in movie theater, but if it does, I bet it has the best concession stand in New York City.
Garrison resident Kevin Kline headed over to that cool flat building on 1st Avenue yesterday to screen his new film, “Trade.”
The movie focuses on the kidnapping and sale of a Mexican girl and Polish woman as part of a human trafficking network. According to Reuters, the Oscar-winner “plays a Texas policeman who with the girl’s brother sets off on a dangerous rescue attempt.”
No word on whether the film had subtitles in so many languages that they obscured the entire screen, or whether the diplomats’ translators were working overtime to not only translate the dialogue, but also change their voices to fit each character. How does one say “I don’t believe voice-over artist is part of my job description” in Italian?
Kline explained the importance of the film in a press conference prior to the premiere:
It tells a story with a human face and tries to make it very real without sensationalizing. The movie is gut-wrenching and alarming and disturbing, as it is meant to be. It doesn’t have blockbuster written all over it, but one hopes is it will have a ripple effect—so the awareness level will be raised as much as it can be.
It appears Kline cares enough about the message of the film to throw some money toward the cause as well. Plans are to donate 5 percent of the profits from “Trade’s” first few months of release to the Vienna-based Office on Drugs and Crime.
(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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