The Oranjes Reading Group cordially invites you to the next Dutch movie night! This time the event will be hosted in English.
Movie: “Antonia’s Line” (1995) Directed by Marleen Gorris.
The screening of the film will take place on the 20th of April 2023 in the Aula Heliodori hall, at 6:30 p.m. The film will be played with English subtitles. The event will be hosted by Ewa Bazarnik, a 3rd year student of Dutch Studies. After the screening a discussion panel will take place.
Trigger warnings: sexual content, sexual violence, depiction of suicide
Movie description:
Awarded the title of best foreign language film during the 1995 Academy Award ceremony (aka. The Oscars), “Antonia's Line” is a classic of Dutch film. The world in which the titular Antonia lives is as dark as it is fairytale-like; full of love, tenderness but also brutality.
Hidden somewhere in the depths of the Netherlands is a picturesque town ruled by women. Dinners are eaten at one communal table, a helping hand is extended to everyone and discrimination of any kind is fading away. Anyone who dares to disturb this almost idyllic tranquility will be sentenced to exile. A mother, daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter, one at a time, go through their own peculiar cycle of life.
This is the beautiful life and the beautiful death of a matriarch.
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