West Wind
City:
Moscow
Cinemas:
35mm
Gogol Centre
Dates:
23–27 October 2013
Partners:
European Film Promotion
CoolConnections
Ширли: Образы реальности
Shirley: Visions of Reality
Country: Austria
Year: 2013
Director: Gustav Deutsch
Cast: Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach, Florentín Groll
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Translation: Russian subtitles
Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Возраст: +
13 of Edward Hopper’s paintings are brought alive by the film, telling the story of a woman, whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations lets us observe an era in American history.
Shirley is a woman in America in the 1930s, ‘40s, ‘50s, and early ‘60s. A woman who would like to influence the course of history with her professional and socio-political involvement. A woman who does not accept the reality of the Depression years, WWII, the McCarthy era, race conflicts and civil rights campaigns as given but rather as generated and adjustable. A woman whose work as an actress has familiarised her with the staging of reality, the questioning and shaping of it; an actress who doesn’t identify her purpose and future with that of solo success or stardom but who strives to give social potency to theatre as part of a collective. A woman who cannot identify with the traditional role model of a wife yet longs to have a life partner. A woman who does not compromise in moments of professional crisis and is not afraid to take on menial jobs to secure her livelihood. A woman who in a moment of private crisis decides to stick with her partner and puts her own professional interest on the back burner. A woman who is infuriated by political repression yet not driven to despair, and who has nothing but disdain for betrayal.
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Schedule:
26 October, Saturday