MS Slavic 7
New Directors/New Films 2019
March 27 - April 7, 2019
In Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell’s clever comedy, a young woman (Campbell) visits Harvard University to research a correspondence between her great-grandmother (a renowned Polish poet) and another poet who seems to have been her lover. Screening with The Plagiarist.
Q&As with Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell on March 30 & April 1. Léo Richard in person on March 30 & April 1.
In Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell’s clever comedy, a young woman (Campbell, a wryly hilarious leading lady) tasked with executing the estate of her great-grandmother, a renowned Polish poet, takes a trip to Harvard University to research a correspondence between her deceased relative and another poet who seems to have been her lover. What initially seems a purely scholarly investigation into her family’s literary history proves a lightning rod for the various disputes, resentments, and tensions bound up in the business of enhancing a family member’s legacy. Bohdanowicz and Campbell push the narrative in ever-amusing directions without relinquishing artistic restraint and delicacy of touch.
Screening with:
The Plagiarist / Les idées s’améliorent
Léo Richard, France, 2018, 22m
French with English subtitles
North American premiere
A young researcher, whose job involves assigning a peculiar kind of metadata to randomly generated media, delves deeply into researching an elusive image.
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