The Lelli Family and Employees Heartily Wish Thier Customers & Friends A Very Healthy & Happy New Year At The Movies Special menu for the cost and calorie-conscious. This menu is not available after 5 p.m. on Saturdays, or with any other specials (coupons) or during the month of December. All entrees served with Soup or Salad and S.a•hetti BEEF SHISH KABOB OSSO BUCCO Skewered cubes of Tenderloin, fresh peppers and onions served over a bed of spanish rice. S Veal Shank slowly marinated in a seasoned vegetable sauce served over rice. $ 9 95 MANDARIN SPINACH SALAD . Finely sliced boneless breast of chicken lightly sauteed in olive oil with garlic, peppers and basil tossed with farfalla pasta. Fresh spinach, mandarin oranges and pine nuts ladled with our raspberry vinaigrette dressing. 830 Call $995 SANDWICHES Sliced beef tenderloin sandwich covered in our famous "ZIP" sauce. $950 And many more delicious dishes! 248-373-4440 us for details and reservations - Our re.ular menu is also available. 855 Opdyke Road (Across from the Silverdome) Serving memorable Italian lunches and dinners since 1939 Monday - Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. • Friday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. • Sunday 12 noon to 9 p.m. David Klein Gallery presents Fernando Botero Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Saturday, September 8 — October 20, 2001 Opening Saturday, September 8 1-4 pm Preview the exhibition at dkgallery.com 163 TOWNSEND BIRMINGHAN1 MI 48009 TELEPHONE 248.433.3700 FAX 248.433.3702 HOURS: MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 11 - 5:30 9/14 2001 R64 The Tedium Of Terror More than a war or Holocaust film, "Divided We Fall" is a masterful study of the complexity of the human mind and spirit. Hrebejk has taken the screenplay — based on a novel written by Petr Jarchovsky — and turned it into an idiosyncratic depiction of human illions of civilians faced courage and frailty in the face of the ultimate test of extraordinary events. character when Nazi Because of its sense of humor, the armies occupied their film has been compared to Lift is countries and started deporting their Beautiful. It's a somewhat superficial Jewish neighbors. comparison. Most looked the other way, when The comic moments in Roberto they did not actively collaborate with Benigni's film are painted in broad their conquerors. A few risked their strokes with bold colors; Divided We own lives and those of their families Fall is more like a by sheltering Jews. watercolor, with subtle Below: And some gave in to terri- shading and a gentler Boleslav Polivka ble fears and pressures at one edge as Josef Cizek in point, but acted with In the film, Josef "Divide d We Fall." supreme moral courage at (Boleslav Polivka) and "A perso n who is faced other times. Marie Cizek (Anna r sometimes with fea It is the third group that Siskova) are a childless filmmaker Jan Hrebejk exam- does inte resting things. couple who witness the Decent p eople can lose ines with perception and their qu alities, and, at deportation of their sympathy in the Czech film Jewish friends and busi- Divided We Fall, an Academy the same time, people ness acquaintances dur- Award nominee last year for who wer e considered ing the Nazi occupa- weakling us can act like Best Foreign Language Film. heroes," says filmmaker tion. Based on a true story, the Timid Marie — Jan Hre bejk. film takes place in a small played delicately by Czech town during the war Siskova who, with years of 1943-45. It tells the appealing Mia Farrow looks and story of a couple who hide a Jewish demeanor, radiates on screen — wist- friend in their tiny pantry for two years. fully dusts the Madonna painting in Sound familiar? Synopses of the film their cramped apartment as her bar- may make it seem like a "genre" pic- renness reflects the desolation brought ture with a predictable Holocaust plot. by the war. But viewers will be pleasantly sur- Polivka's Josef is an exquisite study in prised. AUDREY BECKER Special to the Jewish News NI .