Capsule Reviews of AFI Festival Movies : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : SUNDAY

‘If the Sun Never Returns’

Switzerland-France, 1987, 116 minutes , 5:30 p.m . A dour parable in which a mystic in a remote Swiss village predicts that following a cloud-covered winter, there will be a sunless spring. Film maker Claude Goretta properly seizes upon the dormant fears of the secluded farmers and paints them in somber tones. But from such a proposition, any conclusion would prove a disappointing anti-climax.