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Winter 2020 Film Program PRESENTED BY DATA-MAIL, INC. AND THE MANDELL FAMILY

January 4 – April 5 Her Magnum Opus * Maiden Ms. Stern (Frau Stern) * Wednesday, January 8 Saturday & Sunday, March 7 & 8; 2pm Saturday & Sunday, February 22 & 23; 2pm Seventh Annual 5:30pm view Tradition and the Avant-Garde Wadsworth Atheneum Preceded on both days at 1:15pm by a tour of the Interfaith Film Series 6pm cash bar opens exhibition Sport and Leisure. Free with film admission Museum of Art 7pm performance and film followed by Q&A Show Me the Way with Aileen Passloff and Marta Renzi Presented in collaboration with the Connecticut * HARTFORD PREMIERE Council for Interreligious Understanding and the Film titles and dates are subject to Hartford Seminary. Three films inspire interfaith discussions led by guest speakers. The series change. Please visit thewadsworth.org includes a brunch on March 29. for an updated listing. Autumn Sun (Sol de otoño) Ms. Stern, a pot-smoking 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, Sunday, March 22; 2pm Film Admission has a rich life in Berlin spending time with her daughter, granddaughter, and eclectic group of friends. But rather Maiden tells the story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old Adults: $10 than become a burden to those she loves, Ms. Stern wants cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the to end her own life. While trying to find a way to commit Enacted almost entirely through movement and music, this first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the deed, life keeps getting in her way. Dark comedy. Seniors (62+) and students film follows a group of friends who gather at a lake cottage the World Race in 1989. 2019. Germany. 79 min. Not rated. Subtitles. Directed by Anatol Schuster. to pay homage to their mentor, played by Aileen Passloff. 2018. UK. 97 min. Not rated. Directed by Alex Holmes. Starring Frank Starring Ahuva Sommerfeld, Kara Schröder, Pit Bukowski (18+ w/ school ID): $9 2017. US. 62 min. Not rated. Directed by Marta Renzi. Starring Aileen Bough, John Chittenden, Bruno Du Bois Passloff, Arthur Aviles, Aislinn MacMaster

Members: $8 Screened as part of Art in Motion. $15; $10 members. Purchase at thewadsworth.org. Regular film admission Film Stars: Free applies to attend the screening only. The Art of Aging Series Food & Film Clara Goldstein is a lovely middle-aged Jewish woman Art & Mind * who, because of an impending visit from her American Edie * Downton Abbey brother, is forced to create a contrived relationship with Saturday & Sunday, February 1 & 2; 2pm a man of her own faith. Through a personal ad she meets Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Saturday, February 15 Preceded on both days at 1:15pm by a collection tour. Raul, a man who is well spoken, handsome, charming, Art & Film January 10, 11, & 12; 2pm 2pm tea party in Morgan Great Hall, 3pm film Free with film admission Sunday, February 16; 2pm film only and—she soon discovers—a Gentile. Clara proceeds to give Raul an intensive course in Judaism. Their journey is Say Amen, Somebody both humorous and captivating, but not without pitfalls.

Saturday, January 4 1996. Argentina. 110 min. Not rated. Subtitles. Directed by Eduardo 2pm live gospel music, 2:30pm film Mignogna. Starring , Federico Luppi In collaboration with The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... Preceded at 1:15pm by a tour of the exhibition and Spring (Bom yeoreum gaeul Afrocosmologies. Free with film admission gyeoul geurigo bom) Sunday, March 29; noon brunch, 2pm film

After her controlling husband dies, an elderly woman A documentary journey into art, madness, and the embarks on a trip to fulfill her longtime dream of climbing Excitement levels are high at Downton Abbey when the unconscious, exploring visionary artists and the creative a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. Crawley family learns that King George V and Queen impulse, from the Flemish masters of the Renaissance Mary are coming to visit. But trouble arises when Mrs. to the avant-garde movement of Surrealism and the 2017. UK. 102 min. Not rated. Directed by Simon Hunter. Starring Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie Patmore, Daisy, and the rest of the servants find out unsung geniuses of Art Brut and Outsider Art. that the king and queen travel with their own chefs and 2019. UK. 70 min. Not rated. Directed by Amélie Ravalec Ága * attendants—setting the stage for an impromptu scheme and other shenanigans. Friday & Saturday, January 17 & 18; 2pm Kings Row 2019. UK. 126 min. Rated PG. Directed by Michael Engler. Starring , Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dockery A documentary about the American gospel music scene, Saturday, February 8 Tea party and film: $40; $38 members. Purchase at focusing on two of the movement’s pioneering forces, 2pm discussion and book signing In this stunningly beautiful meditative film, a boy is raised thewadsworth.org. Regular film admission applies to Thomas A. Dorsey and Willie May Ford Smith. 3:15pm film by a Buddhist monk on an isolated floating temple where attend the screening only. 1982. US. 100 min. Rated G. Directed by George T. Nierenberg. Starring the years pass like the seasons. Willie May Ford Smith, Thomas A. Dorsey, Delois Barrett Campbell 2003. South Korea. 103 min. Rated R. Directed by Ki-duk Kim. Starring Ki- duk Kim, Yeong-su Oh, Jong-ho Kim Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Saturday, March 21 Brunch and film: $45; $35 members. Advance reservations Sunday, January 5; 2pm 3:15pm tour of the exhibition Savor; 4pm film are required; purchase at thewadsworth.org. Regular film admission applies to attend the screening only. Preceded at 1pm by a tour of the exhibition Tradition 6pm French-inspired wine dinner in Morgan and the Avant-Garde. Free with film admission Great Hall A beautifully lensed, meditative, and slow-paced portrait of Free Men (Les hommes libres) an elderly couple living in northern Siberia who long to see their estranged daughter Ága. Sunday, April 5; 2pm

2018. Bulgaria. 96 min. Not rated. Subtitles. Directed by Milko Lazarov. The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life Starring Mikhail Aprosimov, Feodosia Ivanova, Sergei Egorov is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood in the Midwest at the turn of the twentieth One Last Deal (Tuntematon mestari) * century. Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1942. US. 127 min. Not rated. Directed by Sam Wood. Starring Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings January 24, 25 & 26; 2pm

Screened as part of An Afternoon with J. Hoberman. Talk, book, and film: $35; $30 members. Talk and Narrated by , this documentary includes A powerful study of seduction, betrayal, and sexual film only: $15; $10 members. Purchase at footage of revivals of Ballets Russes performances by gamesmanship set among the French aristocracy prior thewadsworth.org. Regular film admission applies to the French Revolution. the Joffrey Ballet and the Ballet. The film The film recounts the largely untold story about the role to attend the screening only. features sets and costumes from Diaghilev’s innovative 1988. US. 119 min. Rated R. Directed by . Starring Glenn Algerian and other North African Muslims in played Close, , Michelle Pfeiffer productions, as well as interviews with dancers, in the French Resistance and as rescuers of Jews during musicians, and scholars. Tour, film, and dinner: $75; $70 members. Advance the World War II German occupation.

2018. US. 58 min. Not rated. Directed by Carroll Moore. Produced by the reservations required. Purchase at thewadsworth.org. 2011. France. 99 min. Not rated. Subtitles. Directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi. National Gallery of Art Regular film admission applies to attend the screening Starring Tahar Rahim, Michael Lonsdale, Mahmud Shalaby only. Olavi, a soon-to-be retired art dealer, becomes convinced that a painting up for auction is actually the work of a major Russian artist, and he can’t resist trying to make one last deal, all the while trying to reconcile with his estranged daughter and grandson.

2018. Finland. 95 min. Not rated. Subtitles. Directed by Klaus Härö. Starring Heikki Nousiainen, Pirjo Lonka, Amos Brotherus