MUCH ADO ABOUT DYING (2024) - Cottonwood Documentary Series

Choice of two screenings: 4pm or 6:30pm. Please get your ticket online or email us to reserve a ticket to buy in-person. socialmedia@ifsoc.org

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As this is First Friday we encourage you to arrive early and check out the two floors of Cottonwood Center with dozens of art studios open to the public and their special events!

Tickets and more info: https://ifsoc-docs.eventive.org/

Join us in the Cottonwood Center 2nd floor theater for this endearing, oftentimes hilarious and just wonderful documentary about aging and family bonds. Eccentric Uncle David is charismatic and hilarious, a joy to watch.

MUCH ADO ABOUT DYING (2024, 1h 24m)
When the filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle – “I think I may be dying!” – he takes it as a summons. As it turns out, eccentric Uncle David, a retired actor living alone in a cluttered, mouse-infested London house, is being dramatic, sort of: For the next five years, Chambers both cares for and documents him, through all his performative exuberance (constantly acting out passages of King Lear) and anarchic charisma, as various people (including a sexy young hustler) possibly take advantage of him.

"Pulls off a remarkable feat: a story of an elderly man’s farewell that manages to be simultaneously touching, endearing and often riotously funny." - Matthew Carey, Deadline