DKA and FAMS Present: Relationships in Film Series, March 2016
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Room D
Delta Kappa Alpha and Film and Media Studies present:
Relationships in Film Series
Screenings are free and open to the public.
Treats and great discussions are free as well.
March 23 A Single Man (Tom Ford 2009) 8pm Johnson Center Cinema
With his superb suits and elegant specs, George (Colin Firth) looks the way the rest of the film looks: absolutely just so.... This movie, so accomplished visually, is still a good frame for Firth's performance: a man who has had to construct or reconstruct a personality to bear the weight of loss, and whom society will not permit to grieve. Delicately, and rather brilliantly, Firth suggests how his quiet heroism is mingled with notes of irony and self-deprecation. It is a poignant, deeply compassionate portrait. -- Peter Bradshaw
March 30 Away We Go (Sam Mendes 2009) 7:30pm Johnson Center Room D
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Buoyed by a lyrical, happy-sad soundtrack by the Scottish singer-songwriter Alexi Murdoch and infused with a wry sense of ironic detachment, this is a movie that lopes along at its own quiet, quirky pace. In not just accepting but celebrating mid-life ambivalence, "Away We Go" feels like a particularly welcome respite from the false happily-ever-afters that pass for couples' stories in most mainstream movies. -- Ann Hornaday
Information: GMU FAMS gmufams@gmail.com | 703-993-2768
