V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society

grab bag shorts [Total running time for all six short films: 87 mins.]
Remember the excitement of picking a bag with unknown contents and shivering with anticipation as you
opened it up to reveal the contents? This is like that…only different. You know the contents and the quality,
but the anticipation still remains. No theme prevails, no subject matter providing a cohesive tie-in, just a
bag full of good films.
THuRS NOV 6 5:00 PM-6:35 PM SPONSORED BY: SNEAKING SuSPICIONS
FRI NOV 7 8:50 PM-10:20 PM
SAT NOV 8 10:20 AM-11:55 AM
SuN NOV 9 2:50 PM-4:25 PM
the hunter
Based on the Tobias Wolff short story, “Hunters in
the Snow,” the film is a throwback. Anti-hip, anticontemporary,
it is a story told in the classical tradition,
on classical 35mm black and white film with precise
and understated humor. Each winter, Tub hunts with
childhood friends Frank and Kenny. Approaching middle
age and still the butt of every joke, Tub wants this year to
be different. And it is: deep inside a snow-covered forest,
his long-buried aggression comes raging to the surface.
[Dir. Benjamin Gray, 2007, US, 35mm, 20 mins.]
manon of the asphalt
(manon sur le bItume)
Manon’s dress is just a spot on the pavement, the
wheel of her bike turning over and over in the air.
While everyone bustles around her, Manon’s thoughts
wander to those who loved her and those who will not
get the chance do so...it looks like it’s easy to die in
the springtime.
[Dir. Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont, 2007, France,
35mm, 15 mins. in French with English subtitles]
the last farm
In a remote corner of Iceland, winter is coming on. An aging
farmer named Hrafn is doing his last chores before leaving
with his wife Gróa for a retirement home in the city. Their
daughter Lilja will be coming after the weekend to pick them
up. She calls her parents, interrupting her dad’s lunch. Her
mother is napping. The stoic Hrafn wants to make sure she
won’t come before Monday. What are these last chores?
[Dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2004, iceland, 35mm, 17 mins. in
icelandic with English subtitles]
waItIng (a espera)
An 80-year-old man spends his day at his isolated house
with his only companion, his hunting dog. His daily life is
limited to small things: a solo game of chess, crossword
puzzles and reading a book. Time goes by slowly to the
regular rhythm of the blades of a ceiling fan. The passing
of time measures the endlessness of life, each day exactly
the same. The repetition means safety. But there is no safe
place for those who feel like strangers to their own bodies.
[Dir. Fernanda Teixeira, 2008, Brazil, 35mm, 15 mins. no
Dialogue]
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