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.
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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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Film Patron
Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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The Love That Remains Ástin sem eftir er
Synopsis
A tender rumination on the tenuous bonds of family, the changing Icelandic landscape, and the passage of time itself, The Love That Remains chronicles a year in the life of a family of five as the parents navigate their separation. Anna, an artist who works with natural materials to create large canvases, is frustrated with her professional life and hoping to land an exhibition. Her husband, Magnus, is often away working on a fishing trawler, and his extended absences put a strain on the family. As the love between Anna and Magnus fades, the couple and their three children are forced to redefine their relationships to one another.
Infusing the narrative with surreal flourishes, a dreamy piano score, stunning landscape photography, and a winning performance from Panda the dog, director Hlynur Pálmason (2022’s Godland) offers a meditative, tragicomic portrait of a family in crisis.
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- Anton Máni Svansson, Katrin Pors
- Saga Garðarsdóttir, Sverrir Guðnason, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Grímur Hlynsson, Þorgils Hlynsson, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Anders Mossling
- STILL VIVID, Snowglobe
Sponsors
Program Patron
John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation
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Magellan Magalhães
Synopsis
In the 16th century, after convincing Spanish royalty to fund his expedition, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (played with harrowing intensity by Gael García Bernal) sets his sights on Southeast Asia. Charting a course for the Malay Archipelago, he embarks on a brutal campaign of religious conversion and colonial conquest, but obsession and madness begin to take hold.
Filipino auteur and “slow cinema” practitioner Lav Diaz helms this starkly beautiful biopic, an unconventional epic centering violence against a series of stunning, languid landscapes. Deliberately paced and endlessly absorbing, Diaz subverts the genre’s conventions at every turn, rejecting traditional mythmaking in favor of a more exacting, critical eye. The result is an awe-inspiring history that examines the sinister cruelty fueling the Age of Discovery.
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- Joaquim Sapinho, Marta Alves, Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Paul Soriano, Mark Viktor
- Gael García Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Amado Arjay Babon, Ronnie Lazaro, Hazel Orencio, Tomás Alves, Bong Cabrera, Baptiste Pintaux, Brontis Jodorowsky
- Rosa Filmes, Andergraun Films, Black Cap Pictures, Lib Films
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My Father and Qaddafi
Synopsis
When Jihan was six years old, her father, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, a notable Libyan politician and human rights lawyer, flew to Egypt and never returned. In the late 1970s, during the brutal dictatorship of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, Kikhia had served as Libya’s ambassador to the United Nations until finally resigning in protest and moving to America where he helped lead a peaceful opposition movement. Then, in 1993, he vanished.
In this captivating film, part political mystery and part personal exploration, filmmaker Jihan sets out to find the truth behind her father’s disappearance. With the help of her mother, a strong-willed Syrian American artist, Jihan pieces together the history of the father she barely remembers and the troubled politics of their past. Combining a superb collection of archival footage and intimate, revealing interviews, My Father and Qaddafi takes the audience on a raw and reflective journey about a daughter’s struggle to connect with her father, a man caught between autocracy and resistance.
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- Jihan
- Alessandro Dordoni, Chloë Lambourne, Nicole Hálová
- Micah Walker, Mike McLaughlin
- Aleksander Pankowski vel Jankowski, Barna Zsolt Szoke, Bisan Toron, Dominik Svoboda, Didier Monge, Fryderyk Lutyński, Grzegorz Łapiński, Kristjan Ruus, Magda Szczebiot, Magdalena Sowul, Michał Ostrowski, Salka Valsdóttir, Simone Giuliani, Tiago Correia-Paulo, Zuzanna Ossowska
- Dave Guenette, Mohamed Soueid, Sol Guy
- Desert Power
- https://www.myfatherandqaddafi.com
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Program Patron
Cynthia Stone Raskin
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Nouvelle Vague
Synopsis
Nouvelle Vague is Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater’s love letter to the spellbinding magic of French cinema, reimagining the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s revolutionary Breathless, which ultimately cemented Godard as a pioneer of the French New Wave. As critic-turned-director Godard makes and breaks the rules, as a mix of fresh faces and daring talents—including Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg, Aubry Dullin as Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Guillaume Marbeck as Godard himself—bring his spontaneous, electric film to life. Capturing the youthful dynamism and creative chaos at the heart of one of the world’s most beloved and influential movies, Nouvelle Vague transports us to the streets of 1959 Paris for an ode to the power of cinema to transform our lives.
Screening in 35mm.
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Breathless (1960)
Sun, Oct 19 @ 12:00pm | Gene Siskel Film Center
Don’t miss a special screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s breakthrough film Breathless, which follows small-time crook Michel, who steals a car, murders a policeman, and then reconnects with old flame Patricia in Paris. Screening in 35mm.
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- Laurent Pétin, Michèle Pétin (Halberstadt)
- Holly Gent, Vincent Palmo Jr., Michèle Halberstadt, Laetitia Masson
- Catherine Schwartz
- David Chambille
- Zoey Deutch, Guillaume Marbeck, Aubry Dullin
- Emmanuel Montamat, John Sloss, Mike Blizzard
- ARP Productions in association with Detour Film production
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