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A moving tale
This Sunday evening at 5.45 p.m, Konangal Film Society will screen an all time classic — Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca. It finds itself on the number one position on the top 100 films list. It is a story of a tough guy named Rick who runs the Casablanca café. What happens one night, when a girl whom he had previously loved in Paris turns up with a fugitive Czech patriot. The Nazis are tailing the young Czech and Rick holds the only two sure passports which will guarantee his and the girl’s escape.
The performances of the actors are spectacular, especially those of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the leading roles. Bogart is, as usual, the cool, cynical, efficient and super-wise guy who operates his business strictly for profit but has a core of sentiment and idealism inside. Conflict becomes his inner character, and he handles it credibly. Bergman is surpassingly lovely, crisp and natural and she lights the romantic passages with a warm and genuine glow. The urbane detail and the crackling dialogue which has been packed into this film by the scriptwriters, the Epstein brothers and Howard Koch, is of the best. Michael Curtiz was one of Hollywood’s most prolific and colourful directors. In 1926, Curtiz was brought to Hollywood by Warner Bros. He had a prolific Hollywood career, with directing credits on over 100 films in many film genres. Prime examples of his work in the 1940s are The Sea Wolf (1941), Casablanca (1942) and Mildred Pierce (1945). Fore details, visit: http://konangalfilmsociety.
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Santhosh Sivan’s Navarasa
Cinema Club of Coimbatore will screen Sathosh Sivan’s National award winning film Navarasa on June 22 at Kasthuri Srinivasan Art Gallery, Avanashi Road, at 3. p.m. It is a story based on lives of transgenders, so they have been invited for a discussion after the screening
The film revolves around the story of a young girl Shweta (P. Shwetha) taking her first steps towards adulthood. The girls discovers that every night, her uncle Gautam transforms himself into a woman to lead a completely different life.
When Shweta confronts Gautam on the matter, Gautam tells her he wishes to run away and marry Aravan at the Koovagam Festival. Shweta decides to find her uncle and bring him back home, and along the way, she makes new friends of the third gender, and discovers a whole new culture. For details, call: 0422-4218161/ 94435-78887
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