Western Carolina University

The 2009-10 Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series at Western Carolina University is expanding its popular Foreign Film Series with six more films than last year, featuring overseas classics such as 1979’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock” from Australia and the 1987 French motion picture, “Au Revoir les Enfants.”

All films will start on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the theater at the A.K. Hinds University Center. Cost of admission is $1.

The schedule is as follows:

• Sept. 9: “Good Morning” (Japan, 1959). After constantly nagging their parents for a television set, two brothers are ordered to keep quiet by their parents. This order the two siblings take literally and, in spite, they give up speaking.
  
• Sept. 16: “Au Revoir les Enfants” (France, 1987). Friars of a French boarding school stowaway a young Jewish boy during World War II.
  
• Oct. 14: “Le Notti Bianche” (Italy, 1957). Mario, a shy man new to Venice, falls in love with a woman who has been waiting on her lover to return for more than a year.
  
• Oct. 21: “Day of Wrath” (Denmark, 1943). Accusations of witchcraft and infidelity pit the people of this 17th- century Danish village against one another.
  
• Nov. 11: “Picnic at Hanging Rock” (Australia, 1975). Three young women disappear after going for a walk on the outskirts of town in Victoria, Australia, in 1900.
  
• Nov. 18: “El Amor Brujo” (Spain, 1986). After the killing of her husband, a woman is awakened every night to go to the spot of her husband’s death to dance with his ghost. 
  
• Feb. 17: “Beauty and the Beast” (France, 1946). A beautiful young woman falls in love with a monstrous beast who was at one time human.
  
• Feb. 24: “Black Orpheus” (Brazil, 1959). A love triangle becomes dangerous in the streets of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival.
  
• March 10: “Viridiana” (Spain, 1961). A young woman inherits a fortune and learns the responsibilities that come with wealth.
  
• March 17: “Knife in the Water” (Poland, 1962). After picking up a young hitchhiker, tension rises as a man’s wife gradually becomes more infatuated with the young drifter.
  
• April 7: “Sisters of Gion” (Japan, 1936). After leaving his wife, losing his job and becoming bankrupt, a businessman is forced to move in with his increasingly disinterested mistress.
  
• April 1: “Lost Honor of Katarina Blum” (Germany, 1975). After a passionate night with a stranger, a woman is treated as a terrorist because of her lover’s past.

For more information about the Foreign Film Series at WCU, call (828) 227-7206.

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