Weekend Film Series Continues With 2 Films
A comedic drama starring Academy Award winners Maggie Smith and Kevin Kline, and an award-winning documentary that had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival will screen at the Weekend Film Series, sponsored by Gosling’s, on October 19, 2014.
At 3.00pm, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is the first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.
Thoughtful and compelling, the film probes the recesses of American history by discovering powerful images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost.
Official Through a Lens Darkly trailer:
The film, inspired by Deborah Willis’s book Reflections in Black, opens a window into the lives, experiences and perspectives of black families that is absent from the traditional canon. These stirring images show a much more complex and nuanced view of American culture and society and its founding ideals.
Through a Lens Darkly was named Best Diaspora Documentary at the African Movie Academy Awards.
At 5.15pm, My Old Lady sees down and out New Yorker Mathias [Kline] head to France to claim an apartment inherited from his late father. But when he arrives to sell the property, he is shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge.
Official My Old Lady trailer:
His apartment is a viager – an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale – and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde [Smith], who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloe [Kristin Scott Thomas] for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Mixing light comedy with heartfelt drama, the all-star cast sizzles in this entertaining tale of real estate woes and family secrets.
Tickets are on sale now at the Oceans Gift Shop or by calling 294-0204.
The Weekend Film Series, sponsored by Gosling’s, is a joint production of Bermuda Documentary Film Festival director Duncan Hall and the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.
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