Global Lens 2012 Film Screening—Grey Matter (Matiére Grise)
Date: Tue. November 27, 2012
Time: 6:00 pm
Location:
Sulzer Regional
4455 N. Lincoln Avenue
60625
About this event:
Grey Matter (Matiére Grise) Kivu Ruhorahoza, Rwanda, 2011, 100 minutes
Set in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, this radiantly self-referential film-within-a-film describes the vision and trials of a determined filmmaker named Balthazar as he tries to produce his first feature, The Cycle of the Cockroach. The trenchant drama, about a brother and sister dealing with the aftermath of genocide, finds no support from agencies only interested in funding upbeat policy-friendly films. As Balthazar borrows recklessly from a loan shark, the Cycle plays out on the screen, subtly measuring the horror and systematic madness of events hardly unique to Rwanda, while offering bracing insight into the nature of political violence. Kinyarwanda and French, with English subtitles.
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