The festival pairs with the exhibition Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence. A discussion with Susana Domingo-Amestoy, Assistant Professor of Latin at UMass Boston, will follow.Ī scene from A Man, screening at the MFA Boston. It was a recent winner of a César Award (the French Oscars) for Best Foreign Film. This drama digs into the feral underbelly of country life, focusing on the brutal conflicts between foreigners and locals, educated and uneducated. In this thriller, a French couple moves to a small village in Galicia where they will practice ecologically responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses, which will facilitate the repopulation of the town. Part of Belmont World Film’s International Film SeriesĪt the Majestic 7 Cinema, 81 Arsenal Yards Blvd, Tenant 100, Watertown In this sense, the films are truly radical, making the world anew time and time again.” ( Dennis Zhou, the Nation) Arts Fuse review In all of his work, there is the constant need to keep meaning from becoming reducible to allegory or metaphor, to maintain the potential for ambiguity. It sometimes flickers into being through the presence of chance or coincidence at other times, through the extraction of the unexpected from the ordinary. “Hong’s films are always suggesting this possibility for a different world. The HFA presents the last seven films of Hong Sangsoo, the brilliant and prolific Korean director who has produced an average of one film per year for the past 26 years. A scene from Hong Sangsoo’s film Introduction.
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