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European Christmas Set
Scanorama has prepared an exclusive gift for its viewers and invites them to travel to different countries and European times during the holidays. “Fans and Alexander” by Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1982) (shown only with English subtitles), “My Night with Mod” by French film classic Eric Rohmer (1969) and “About Horses and People” by Icelandic director Benedict Erlingsson (2013) – an incredible cultural experience, looking for an alternative to boring Christmas movies ”, says Gražina Arlickait founder, founder and artistic director of the festival.
“Fans and Alexander” is deservedly called one of the most beautiful Christmas movies. The film dates back to 1906. In Sweden. The Ekdal family celebrates Christmas with Grandma Helena. We observe the holidays and other events of a large family through the eyes of two children: a brother and a sister. In the film based on autobiographical motifs, imaginary reality and dreams are intertwined with reality, sensibly transmitting childhood and adulthood experiences. The film won Oscars for best film in a foreign language, best cinematography, and best costume designer.
“My Night with Mod” by E. Rohmer is a band infused with intellectual charm, discussing the limits of moral choices. An orderly and religious engineer, Luji, is looking at a beautiful blonde in church before Christmas. She might become his wife, but an old friend he meets by chance invites Luji to a good Mod friend. Luji begins to doubt: a charming and wise mod or a young blond Francis? The film, which is part of the director’s cycle “Moral Tales”, raises the question of whether rational choices can overcome passion and achieve the fullness of life. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay.
Erlingsson’s “About Horses and People” is one of the wittiest recent Icelandic comedies of 2013. It received great interest from the audience at Scanorama. It is a story about the relationship of a man to a horse and the relationship of a horse to a human. They both love, they both fight. And they both die when the time comes. One thing is clear: a horse at least doesn’t see intrigue like a human being. The film invites you to look at the established laws with different eyes: maybe a horse understands the world better than a human?
For the more persistent synephilias, Scanorama has put together a collection of Christmas movies, including director R. Andersson’s latest film “About Infinity” (2019) and Hannes Holm’s comedy “Once Upon a Time” (2015), one of the most popular films of the festival. humanity, its neighbors, and remember that the meaning of life is created by human connections.
News from the north and neighboring Poland
As cultural life moves into virtual space, Scanorama invites you to watch films that were screened at last year’s festival and return to theaters this summer on its virtual platform. The film by the aforementioned festival director Roy Andersson “About Infinity” (2019) and Malgorzata Szumowska’s mystical drama “Unclean Lamb” (2019) will be presented to the public.
R. Andersson’s “About Infinity” continues the poetic narrative of his previous films. It’s full of inventive cultural interpretations, authentic humor, restrained eccentricity, and mild sadness. The director deliberately places his characters in absurd situations and considers the weakness and sensitivity of successful people as one of the most important qualities in an alienated world.
Ms Szumowska is one of the most prominent voices in contemporary Polish cinema, speaking boldly about the patriarchal structure of society and power structures, without being noticed in everyday life. In The Unholy Lamb, she delves into the irrational nature of man and the flaws in society that cause her to seek refuge in alternative religious worship communities.
Lithuanian Film Classics: Free
This year, the festival program “Open History of Lithuanian Cinema” celebrated the 90th anniversary of the birth of the director and screenwriter Vytautas Žalakevičius. Scanorama invites you to see a diverse diptych that reveals talent for another month: “Adam wants to be a man” (1959) and “Sadūto Tūto” (1974) directed by Almantas Grikevičius according to the script by V. Žalakevičius. Films sound unexpectedly relevant in today’s context, when the desire for a beautiful life and creative tensions manifest themselves not in the grim Soviet reality, but in the virtual space that has changed ordinary everyday life. Films from the “History of Lithuanian Open Cinema” program will be screened free of charge.
You can watch movies on the virtual cinema platform kinas.scanorama.lt. Screenings of Fans and Alexander (English subtitles only), My Night with Mod, About Horses and People and the Christmas set are available in December 21 d. – Program January 3 “Open History of Lithuanian Cinema” December 21 d. – January 19 d. You can watch the movies from the “Open Lithuanian Cinema History” program for free.
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