IT’S MOVIE FESTIVAL NIGHT AT THE CRTA!

IT’S MOVIE FESTIVAL NIGHT AT THE CRTA!

REGISTER November 11th!

Second Film of our 2024-2025 Season

Tuesday November 19th

FORGOTTEN LOVE

A Beautiful Adaptation of a Classic Polish Book and Film

Registration For Our Second Film Opens November 11th! 

Description of Activity:  Join us for a zoom dinner/movie/discussion night on Tuesday November 19^th at 6 PM.

Our films are chosen for interesting themes that lend themselves to discussion by viewers.  Most selected have been award winners at film festivals. Even if you have seen the film, joining our discussion after the showing will enhance your viewing and understanding of the movie.

Theme:  The power of the human spirit, perseverance and recovery. Adaptation of a cherished classic novel.  One of the best recent international films to be available to a global audience.

What better way to come together (virtually) than with friends, former colleagues, and family to have a bite and watch a stimulating movie.  Our members love the discussion at the end of the film to share reactions and ideas about the film.  If you watch the film at another time, you can still join us for the discussion!

You are encouraged to mark your calendar, so you don’t miss it! As soon as you are registered, I will send out the logon info to you with further instructions.

Synopsis:

Forgotten Love is a pre-war Polish epic that belongs in the company of Les Misérables, Dr. Zhivago, and Gone with the Wind, to name a few of the grand stories that depict love, its loss, its renewal, and the effects it has over generations of families and countries. This Netflix third adaptation of a cherished classic novel, The Quack, brings freshness, period perfect costumes, and production design for a complete cinematic experience.
A renowned surgeon loses his memory after an attempted robbery in a dark street. Lost and confused, he roams the country for decades not knowing who he is or whatever happened to the little daughter his estranged wife stole from him. His love in this dynamic period piece is both for his lost daughter and his lost occupation, which once made him the top brain surgeon in the country but now catapults him from the upper class to the lower.
Director Michal Gazda quietly shows in a series of remarkably affecting scenes how this lost man saves lives without knowing why and comes closer to finding his daughter than he could ever realize. While his amnesia is persistent, the film shows how something as deeply felt as a gifted skill and its passion manifest even without realizing it. Lesek Lichota gently plays the heroic Doctor Wilczur with such finesse and understatement that none can deny his greatness.
After a few improbable incidents, including Polish magical realism, the doctor emerges. Along the way, the film emphasizes the class divide through the secondary romance of the doctor’s daughter, Maria (Maria Kowalska) with Count Czynski (Mikolaj Grabowski).
A society that can deny peasants’ medical needs and thwart the integration of love between those boundaries reveals a cruelty that only heroes like the doctor and his daughter can overcome. The film consistently emphasizes the class divide and its attendant injustices.
While Forgotten Love at times evokes tears in the delicacy of love forsaken, the film grounds itself in the reality of lost love and class warfare to the dramatic extent that reconciliations might not happen, so determined fate seems to be to deny happiness and, most of all, love.
Forgotten Love is one of the best international films of the year that satisfies our need for romance in art that leaves us happy to be human.

You will be left in thought and reflection long after the film ends.  I am truly looking forward to our discussion.

Trailer:  Forgotten Love (trailer begins immediately after ad)

PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE A VIEWING OPTION!

As before, we will be using the Zoom platform for this event. Once you have registered through the Event Registration on the CRTA website or via email, Ron Jeffery will send you the link to the Zoom meeting room along with instructions. If you do not receive the link, please contact Ron directly.

Ron will briefly introduce the film and will lead the discussion following the film. We expect it will be a thoughtful and stimulating evening. Our Zoom portal will open at 5:50 PM.

Registration begins:  November 11^th  at 10:00 AM

Registration closes:  Monday, November 18th

OPTION ONE – ZOOM

Please note that the film will begin at 6:10 after the introduction and members have logged on. All will be muted during the film and unmuted for our discussion. Late arrivals may not be admitted avoiding disruption during the movie. (text or email Ron if you are having trouble logging-on) The film will end at approximately 8:30 P.M. (2 hr. 20 m)

Discussion will begin approximately 8:35 P.M.

OPTION TWO – NETFLIX  

Forgotten Love is a film available to watch on Netflix.  If you have a subscription, you can watch an enhanced version on the platform on your own tv.  You just have to search for the film on Netflix.

All other aspects will remain the same.  Those who watch on Netflix will start at 6:10 and we will all get together to discuss the film shortly after it ends approximately 8:30 PM.  Movie length is 2hr 20m.

No one is left out! And of course….you can have dinner or popcorn during the film without disturbing anyone!!

Cost:  Member – No Charge, Non-member – No Charge

RESERVE THE DATES!

Scheduled Future Film Dates and Films:

Tuesday December 17^th : The Beautiful Game

Tuesday January 21^st : His Three Daughters

Tuesday February 18^th : Gifted

Tuesday April 22^nd : The Long Game

Alternate: Will & Harper

Event planner: Ron Jeffery

Email: rajeffery@gmail.com

Phone: 403-708-3605