Film Program 2016 / 2017

Nelly is an Auschwitz survivor. Her husband, Johnny, does not recognize her with her reconstructed face. Nelly’s friend, Lene, wants her to leave Johnny and join her in Palestine. Is this a love triangle, a hate triangle, or a struggle between identity and death?

Guido shows wit and determination to convince Dora to marry him. During the war, his uncle and his son are arrested with him and sent to a concentration camp. Dora chooses to accompany them. The son avoids the gas chamber, Guido then tries to hide him as he creates a fantastic game to cover the horrors and misery, and sustain his faith that Life is Beautiful.

Ellis, a young homesick Irish immigrant , falls in love in her new milieu of 1950s Brooklyn and a Italian local man. This gives rise to a conflict between her apron springs & the Past, versus Eros & the Present.

Therese is a distracted, inexperienced 19 year old; she is young, talented, but unsure. With Carol's encouragement she begins to find herself. Carol is a wealthy, married suburbanite, older, witty, pain-laced, refined, accustomed to money and its prerogatives. The film details their affair in an era when such love was, by necessity, undercover.

True love does not exist except for the ethereal and the poetic. Perfect love, as with Romeo and Juliet, ends in death, grief and Freudian melancholia. When Oliver and Jenny fall into “perfect love” we sense a disaster looming. Investigation of a missed pregnancy presages for us a riven love affair, a terrible loss creating greater intensity of the attachment as we experience it.

Comfortably off, this provincial English couple have a week to go before they celebrate their 40 wedding anniversary. Their marital contentment will soon be disrupted by an unexpected letter which opens up a huge crevice in their relationship. Two analysts will present the film from the perspective of the husband and the wife.