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CONTACT INFO:
Contact Person(s)            Tamara Murray
Company Name             Wayne County Arts Alliance
Phone Number                         570-253-6850
Email Address                         wcaa@waynecountyartsalliance.org
Website URL                        www.waynecountyartsalliance.org

Wayne County Arts Alliance

Presents:

SUNDAY NIGHT CINEMA

A Romantic Drama from France’s New Wave, “Jules and Jim,” Kicks off Sunday Night Cinema Series

Date: Sunday evening, February 14, 2010

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: Wayne County Chamber of Commerce, 32 Commercial Street, Honesdale

Description:

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, the Wayne County Arts Alliance kicks off its winter film series with a romantic drama by the great French director Francois Truffaut, a leading light of the “New Wave” that in the last 1950s and early 1960s rocked and transformed European film-making. Shocking and innovative when it first came out in 1962, the film chronicles a tragic love affair between Catherine (played by the legendary actress Jeanne Moreau in one of her more memorable roles) and the two friends who have fallen under her spell.

Set in France and Germany during the period before and after the First World War, “Jules and Jim” is praised by the noted historian David Thomson in his “New Biographical Dictionary of Film” as one of Truffaut’s most successfully realized works. Thomson summarizes the film’s premise as a “passionate triangle in which three people are trapped, all in love with all, all reluctant to hurt the others.”

Truffaut, who died in 1984, influenced numerous American directors, including Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman and Martin Scorsese. Steven Spielberg thought so highly of the French director that he recruited him to play the scientist Claude Lacombe in the 1977 movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

All that makes “Jules and Jim “ an essential entry in the Wayne County Arts Alliance’s winter film festival, which features classic movies by top directors from all over the world. The program, shown by arrangement with the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation, will be presented at 7:00 p.m. at the Wayne County Chamber of Commerce, 32 Commercial Street, in Honesdale. A donation of $5.00 per person is suggested, to help support the activities of the Arts Alliance. The film will be preceded with a short introduction and followed by a discussion. For more information, contact the Arts Alliance at (570) 253-6850 or visit http://www.waynecountyartsalliance.org.