I am really looking forward to show you our next film, Antonia’s Line.
It is a wonderful film about the cycles of life, spanning about 50 years –– earthy, funny and sexy. The movie is in Dutch with English subtitles and runs 102 minutes. Antonia’s Line is rated R, is a comedy/drama and was released in 1996.
After the Second World War Antonia returns to her childhood village in Holland, together with her teenage daughter.
Antonia greets her old friends, among them Russian Olga, who runs the café and is an undertaker and midwife, Crooked Finger, who lives in a room with his books and bitterly insists on the futility of life, and Mad Madonna, who howls at the moon because, as a Catholic, she cannot marry her Protestant lover.
And there is also farmer Bas, who comes courting one day with his five sons and makes a proposal of marriage as his boys need a mother.
Antonia tells him: “You can’t have my hand, but you can have the rest.”
The film is a great mix of magic realism we know from Latin America, dour European philosophies of death, the everyday realities of rural life, cheerful feminism and a gallery of unforgettable characters.
Members of the Spiritual Circle from Mental Health will be presenting a slide show of their upcoming workshop before our film, starting at about 6:45 p.m. and we will show a short from Shred the Nar, Oliver Berger and Morgan Day. Be prepared for another great evening at the Williams Lake Film Club with some special Nosh afterwards. All proceeds go to support the LDA, the Williams Lake Chapter of the Association for Students with Learning Disabilities.
The Williams Lake Film Club will screen Antonia’s Line Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. at the Gibraltar Room. Back doors open at 6:30 p.m., but if you come through the front doors, just walk on through and you will find me with the cash box.
Admission is $9 regular, $8 for members, and $6 for seniors (65+ please) as well as for high school students and TRU.
