Leonora in the Morning Light
Synopsis
After iconoclastic artist Leonora Carrington trades English life for 1930s Paris, she falls in with giants of the Surrealist movement, including Salvador Dalí and André Breton. But it’s her passionate love affair with German painter Max Ernst that affects her life and work in the most profound manner. Their turbulent relationship sends her on a journey of self-discovery that will eventually take her to Mexico, where she finds a true sense of freedom—and her own unique artistic voice.
Working from the novel by Mexican author and artist Elena Poniatowska, directors Lena Vurma and Thor Klein chronicle key chapters in Carrington’s singular life, depicting the evolution of an artist with nuance and subtlety. Actress Olivia Vinall delivers a perfectly pitched performance as the story’s central figure, portraying Carrington both in her youth and as a more mature woman working in Mexico, where she emerged alongside Frida Kahlo as one of the country’s preeminent creative figures. With its insightful observations of a multifaceted talent whose distaste for the conventional enabled her to live as a true original, Leonora in the Morning Light gives Carrington her due.
Screenings & Events
Screening
Sun, Oct 19 @ 4:45pm
at AMC NEWCITY 14, Screen 13
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Directors Lena Vurma & Thor Klein and Amy Ernst, granddaughter of artist Max Ernst
Community Cinema Screening
Mon, Oct 20 @ 6:30pm
at National Museum of Mexican Art
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Directors Lena Vurma & Thor Klein
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Film Credits
- Lena Vurma
- Thor Klein, Lena Vurma
- Matthieu Taponier
- Tudor Vladimir Panduru
- Olivia Vinall, Alexander Scheer, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Ryan Gage, Istvan Teglas, Luis Gerardo Mendez
- Maria Portugal
- Chris D’Cruz, Gatherer Entertainment, Originarium, Aristotle Andrulakis
- Dragonfly Films, Meli Melo, Randan, Framebreed, Ostlicht
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Synopsis
Rhymed couplets express the irritation caused by an uninvited rat guest. Based on a book by Nadia Budde, this short humorously advocates for sharing space and time with others.
This film screens as part of Shorts Program 9: Family Friendly Animation.
Film Credits
- Alexander Isert
- Based on the Book by Nadia Budde / Storyboard: Johanna Hochholzer
- Alexis Krüger, Jacob Branigan
- Peer Kleinschmidt
- Alexander Isert
- Protoplanet Studio
- https://www.interfilm.de/en/festivaldistribution/films/?tx_vfilms_llist%5BvFilm%5D=2606&cHash=95a89e68235a5453bf172d278d7cb301
Shorts 9: Family Friendly Animation
Synopsis
Clever animated shorts from across four continents appear in this delightful family program full of polar bears, empty cans of tuna, and beloved grandparents. Presented as a relaxed screening and recommended for cinema-enthusiasts ages 8 years and older.
An empty tuna can and his kitchen friends battle an evil package of spaghetti in Tsuna the Empty Can – Meatball and Spaghetti. In Pow! Jake struggles to keep playing video games while his family attends an intertribal gathering. On the Mat Outside My Door is a poem to an intrusive and ultimately loveable rat. After losing his grandfather, Mundinho meets a whale who lessens his grief in Yore Gramps and the Whale. Snow Bear follows the adventures of a polar bear who must make a new friend in his changing environment. A long car trip made worse by bickering parents shifts into an epic adventure in Are We There Yet? Lily asks “What could be scarier than the meanest teacher in school? ” A teenage boy finds common ground with his grandfather during their weekly visits in Wednesdays with Gramps.
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Shorts 8: Drama
VariousChina, Croatia, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Palestine, Philippines, Spain
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What Marielle Knows Was Marielle Weiss
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Julia, Tobias, and their eleven-year-old daughter Marielle seem like the perfect family. The parents have high-powered corporate jobs and a stylish home complete with a designer kitchen. Yet beneath this bourgeois facade, trouble is brewing. When a friend at school slaps Marielle on the playground, she inexplicably develops telepathic powers, gaining the ability to see and hear everything her parents do—even when she’s not in the room. Under a state of constant surveillance, the parents’ patience is put to the test, and cracks in their marriage emerge. Through their daughter, they begin to engage in a series of manipulative games, leading to increasingly awkward and absurd situations.
Clever, incisive, and darkly funny, What Marielle Knows careens toward an unforgettable end as the fretting parents must do whatever they can to strip their daughter of her psychic abilities. From this absurd premise, director Frédéric Hambalek builds a hilarious and scathing satire of upper middle-class family life.
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Film Credits
- Philipp Worm, Tobias Walker
- Frédéric Hambalek
- Anne Fabini
- Alexander Griesser
- Julia Jentsch, Felix Kramer, Laeni Geiseler, Mehmet Atesçi, Moritz Treuenfels
- Walker + Worm Film
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In the midst of Stalanist Russia’s Great Terror, hundreds of party critics are unjustly imprisoned in deplorable conditions. The detainees write letters, thousands of them, in hopes that their pleas for freedom will fall into the hands of someone who can help. The secret police burn them before they are sent. Against all odds, though, one such letter reaches the desk of Alexander Kornev, an idealistic prosecutor. When attempting to offer counsel to the prisoner who authored the missive, though, he’s met with suspicion and resistance from local officials. Suspecting foul play, he embarks on a quest to Moscow, intent on justice.
An exacting, austere visual style—a mostly immobile camera captures the action in long, unbroken takes—creates a mounting sense of chilling, Kafkaesque paranoia. Festival award-winner Sergei Loznitsa (Natural History of Destruction, 2022) returns with this unflinching, absurdist confrontation with the Soviet state’s grim, totalitarian reality.
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- Kevin Chneiweiss
- Sergei Loznitsa
- Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, Anatoli Beliy
- SBS Productions
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