The Roe's Room (with Director Lech Majewski in person)
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Join us Friday November 16 when we venture to see a most unusual film, Polish director Lech Majewski's The Roe's Room. "A fitting introduction to Majewski's singular vision and multiple talents, The Roe's Room is the cinematic version of the 'autobiographical opera' Pokój saren (itself based upon a book of his poetry), which was later selected as one of the best new operas in the world by International Theater Institute. In nineteenth-century opera, emotions sing, and this twentieth-century film jarringly recreates this truth inside a decaying Polish apartment complex. Between the four walls of their flat, a mother, father, and son grow older by the day, but their 'reality' blossoms with the poetics of fantasy: milk spurts from the table, leaves sprout from a cracked shower wall, and in autumn deer invade their living room, to hide in the wheat that's grown through the carpet. Reminiscent of the fantasies of Polish writer Bruno Schulz, The Roe's Room is a work to be felt as well as heard and seen, soaring with the harmonic beauty of song, and the just as beatific world of dream." The Roe's Room, it should be noted, marks the beginning of the Pacific Film Archive's "Blood of a Poet: The Films of Lech Majewski," a month-long retrospective of the Polish director's film and video works. The director Majewski will be present at Tuesday's screening.
Pacific Film Archive Directions and Information: https://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit/directions
More information on the PFA's Majewski retrospective: https://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/majewski2007
Tickets are $8 adults, $5 students and seniors.
6:00 Purchase tickets at PFA's Box Office (2575 Bancroft) then meet across the street at Cafe Milano (2522 Bancroft) for salads/sandwiches/coffee.
6:30 Head to PFA's theater (2575 Bancroft) to take our seats. The film starts at 7:00.
8:45 We will meet afterwards at Caffe Strada (two blocks up Bancroft, at 2300 College) for conversation.