The 羞羞视频 Film Institute's 35th Annual Film Series will continue with a screening of Francois Truffaut鈥檚 The Last Metro on January 22nd.
In The Last Metro, G茅rard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under German occupation during World War II in Truffaut's gripping, humanist character study. Against all odds, the wife of the missing Jewish theater manager, a leading man who鈥檚 in the Resistance, and the company鈥檚 troupe believe the show must go on in spite of increasingly restrictive Nazi oversight. Equal parts romance, historical tragedy and even comedy, The Last Metro is considered by critics to be Truffaut鈥檚 ultimate tribute to art overcoming adversity.
The screening will begin at 2:00PM at the Kerr McGee Auditorium in the Meinders School of Business at NW 27th Street and McKinley Ave. A discussion will follow the presentation for those who wish to stay. Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.
ACCOLADES FOR THE LAST METRO
-鈥淭ruffaut balances his hopeful plot on a tightrope of coincidences and narrow escapes that horrifically suggest the abyss that engulfed so many men and women of the artistic and political underground.鈥� New Yorker
-鈥淧olitical and romantic intrigues run parallel and then intersect in Truffaut's critically acclaimed and commercially popular Oscar-nominated WWII saga.鈥� NY Times
-鈥淭he most crowd-pleasing film of Truffaut鈥檚 later career.鈥� New York Film Critics Circle
-鈥淚n Truffaut鈥檚 work, technique matters less than feeling. His feeling is spontaneous, sincere, genuine, na茂ve, generous. It bubbles up like the spring of life itself. A spectator sitting down to this picture feeling old and dry will rise up feeling young and green.鈥� Time
UPCOMING FILMS
* Feb. 5, Lasse Hallstrom鈥檚 My Life as a Dog
* Feb. 19, Asghar Farhadi鈥檚 Fireworks Wednesday
* March 5, Ciro Guerra鈥檚 Embrace of the Serpent
