Film Society Season Resumes

Film Society Season Resumes

With the World Cinema Showcase closing today, we'll resume the film
society season next Monday, April 6th, with a screening of Lech
Majewski's ANGELUS (Poland | 2000 | R16 offensive language, sex scenes).
As stated in the brochure, Monday April 6th is also the scheduled
date of our Annual General Meeting, which will start at 6:30pm. The
AGM usually lasts roughly 20 minutes, and the film screening will
immediately follow. At the AGM you will hear a short report from the
society's president, one from the treasurer, and one from a delegate
who attended the recent AGM of the national organisation of which we
are a part. The AGM is also your chance to become a member of the
volunteer committee that runs the society. If you have any questions,
or are considering volunteering, please email me in the next few days
prior to the AGM. We'd love a bit more help, and your level of
commitment can be whatever you choose.

About ANGELUS:

Twentieth-century history gets a fanciful twist in this imaginative
historical fantasy that combines occultism, bawdy humour, and
beautiful, ornately staged tableaux. When the first two prophecies –
World War II and Communism – of a mystical cabal of painters and
coal miners come true, the group must prepare for the third: a death
ray from Saturn. Majewski’s vibrant imagery reflects the expressive
naïve artwork of the mystics. “Wildy inventive! Fantastic imagery!
A mix of Fellini’s absurdist satire and Tarkovsky’s mystical
ritualism.” – Washington City Paper

The bizarre story of the “Circle of Janow,” a group of Stalinist-
era Silesian coal miners, mystics, and naïve painters, forms the
basis of Majewski’s most ornately staged and undeniably bizarre
film, an Amarcord-like tribute to fabulists and dreamers everywhere
wrapped in the harshest of histories: Poland under Hitler and Stalin.

(103 minutes, Polish with English subtitles, 35mm)

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