July 6 Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, passengers on a tour bus take shelter in an abandoned town. To fill their time and lessen their anxiety, they decide to stage the play, King Lear. As they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own mortality, tensions surge around and they are forced to confront their most raw emotions and fight for survival. As part of Sarasota's Bloomsday celebration, this James Joyce film starts 9am on Saturday, June 16. The screening will be followed by a lecture on the novel by noted Joycean scholar Professor R. Brandon Kershner.
Admission is FREE but seating is limited.
A young couple invites their closest friends over for their sixth wedding anniversary and a reunion celebration after a painful separation. An unexpected gift sends the party spiraling out of control and unleashes an explosion of painful confessions. The celebration becoms a scathing inspection of a group of friends and a scorching dissection of a marriage on the brink. A delicate but unblinking film that succeeds in capturing and sustaining the fragile emotional climate of curiosity, fear, innocence and prurience that surrounds adolescent sexual experimentation. This wonderful documentary tribute to Latin jazz is a pure expression of the director's infectious love for the music.