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 Tonight
Tuesday December 21 @ 7pm
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
FREE for AFS members; $4 for public
Solas (The Lonely Ones)
you should go...read why:
When the insensitive, sadistic patriarch of a rural family is brought to a hospital for a rather long stay, his wife and their estranged daughter live together while seeking ways to understand the decisions each has made in her own life. Approaching middle-age, Maria is so full of anger. Her relationships with men have not been particularly rewarding, not surprising, given the control exercised by her father over "his women." It is really the mother, Rosa, who is a revelation in the course of the film. Quiet, unassuming, capable of taking the worst accusations from her husband and the most pitiless verbal abuse from her daughter, Rosa is transformed by her friendship with an elderly, sweet old man, living in the same apartment building as Maria. Their growing friendship softens the harshness of the other people and presents a beautiful portrait of kindness and growing love between two old people, perhaps one of the most realistic and believable such depictions in cinema.
-review courtesy of the Austin Film Society
posted by
zenbetty at 12:13 PM
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