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smARTfilms: FOREIGN FILM - HIPSTERS

Curated & Hosted by tj faddis.

Join us for another trip around the globe as we explore other cultures and peoples stories through contemporary film here at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Auditorium. This month we have a film each from Russia, Norway, Saudi Arabia and Israel. All films are subtitled. Well feature a short introduction before each film and host a post-film discussion with the audience. Please note the BIMA Bistro will not be open for dinner; however, we can purchase beverages (and beer & wine) - which we can take into the auditorium to sip as we watch the world unfold.

Bar open at 6:30
Auditorium opens at 7:00
Movie starts at 7:30

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Featured film:
HIPSTERS (2008) - shows September 7 - Russia - 115 minutes - Musical

See trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpfcuU6taTE

Once upon a time in 1955 Moscow, there two cultures: the hip and the square. The hip minority could be found in smoke-filled lairs where flashily attired hepcats jived to the subversive honk of jazz & boogie. The gray-faced square majority, alarmed by the infiltration of Western decadence, relentlessly stalked these rebels. Armed with scissors, they forcibly trimmed their hair and slashed their brightly checkered American outfits. Based on Yuri Korotkovs book Boogie Bones, the story follows the personal revolution of 20-year-old Mels from upstanding member of the Young Communist League to hipster - while finding his identity and absorbing the consequences. Director Valery Todorovsky keeps the film moving by balancing its more serious undercurrents with a liberating sense of fun, with buoyant musical numbers that are as resplendent as GREASE. This movies high spirits cannot be quenched. - NY Times