BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090303 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:TRUE SUMMARY:''A Christmas Tale'' DESCRIPTION:In the opening of Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale" ("Un Conte De Noel")\, a wily and unendingly inventive drama of family dysfunction stirred up over a Christmas gathering\, the story of the long-ago death of the family first born to leukemia is dramatized as shadow puppet theater. It's tender and lovely and quite delicate\, an evocative way to suggest the theatricality of memory and the blurring of detail over time. Two and a half hours later\, as eldest sister Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) sits at her desk putting her thoughts of family and fears and sins she can't forgive into a diary in the final shots of the film\, a photo of that very shadow theater can be seen on her desk. It's the final shot of the film and it echoes the opening images in a whisper. It's the kind of detail that connects imagery and meaning\, memory and emotion\, past and present\, life and death. Full of invention and energy\, rich with suggestive details\, and brimming with evocative and playful technique woven into a dynamic piece of storytelling\, "A Christmas Tale" is a film that pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality. It is not rated and has a running time of 152 minutes. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In the opening of Arnaud Desplechin&rsquo\;s "\;A Christmas Tale"\; ("\;Un Conte De Noel"\;)\, a wily and unendingly inventive drama of family dysfunction stirred up over a Christmas gathering\, the story of the long-ago death of the family first born to leukemia is dramatized as shadow puppet theater. It&rsquo\;s tender and lovely and quite delicate\, an evocative way to suggest the theatricality of memory and the blurring of detail over time. Two and a half hours later\, as eldest sister Elizabeth (Anne Consigny) sits at her desk putting her thoughts of family and fears and sins she can&rsquo\;t forgive into a diary in the final shots of the film\, a photo of that very shadow theater can be seen on her desk. It&rsquo\;s the final shot of the film and it echoes the opening images in a whisper. It&rsquo\;s the kind of detail that connects imagery and meaning\, memory and emotion\, past and present\, life and death. \;

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Full of invention and energy\, rich with suggestive details\, and brimming with evocative and playful technique woven into a dynamic piece of storytelling\, "\;A Christmas Tale"\; is a film that pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality.
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It is not rated and has a running time of 152 minutes.
LOCATION:Smith Opera House82 Seneca StGeneva\, NY UID:e.248.2200 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260412T205634Z URL:https://members.flxchamber.com/events/details/a-christmas-tale-02-27-2009-2200 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR