Free and open to the public. (Masking required.) More Info
Venue
Film Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive Durham,
NC
27705
Description
Free Film Screening:
El Planeta (Amalia Ulman, 2021, 79 min, Spain, in English and Spanish with English subtitles, B&W, DCP)
Multidisciplinary artist Amalia Ulman describes her first film as “a comedy about eviction.” Set sometime after the 2008 recession in Gijón, Spain, El Planeta depicts a mother and daughter careening towards homelessness yet keeping up appearances by scamming, shoplifting, skipping out on dinner bills, and otherwise practicing plain denial. The delightful co-stars – director Amalia and her real-life mother Ale – exude a breezy chemistry as the calamities and humiliations mount. Pitched somewhere between a 30’s screwball and a 90’s indie, El Planeta is a thoroughly entertaining depiction of two women wryly enduring the aftershocks of economic crisis.
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