2010 08 03 - Intimate Lighting / Intimni osvetleni
Intimate Lighting / Intimni osvetleni
"One of the ten films that have most affected me." Krzyzstof Kieslowski
Director: Ivan Passer
1965
Czechoslovakia
71 min
35mm
PG
In Czech with English subtitles
3 August 2010 (Tuesday), 7:30 pm
National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre
93 Stamford Road Singapore 178897
Free admission but members only -- flash your membership card to go in. You may bring up to 2 guests if you hold a SFS Reel membership card. Non-members may sign up at the door -- we will issue membership on the spot. No tickets will be sold. Free seating.
Intimate Lighting is a dramatic comedy that charts the course of a music, beer, and slivovitz-fuelled weekend visit by a town mouse to a country mouse. Petr is a professional soloist who, along with his free-spirited mistress, Stepa, arrives at the provincial home of his old friend from the music academy, nicknamed Bambas, who is weighed down by the responsibilities of the post of Head of the local music school and the demands of family. The film's pace of gentility proliferates as various personal interactions ensue upon the arrival of Bambas' guests. The gentle flood of ironic contrasts, glaringly offered by the film, is witty and affectionate, rather than knowing or moralistic.
Rich in amusing little incidents, and sometimes surreal quotidian details, Intimate Lighting unassumingly sets up its contrast between town and country, young and old, with the feel of a modern day fairy-tale. Like all true classics it is so sharply anchored in its time and place that it cannot help but speak, if softly, to viewers far away in every sense.
About the Director Ivan Passer
Ivan Passer started out in the film industry as a scriptwriter, and worked as assistant director to fellow Czech director, Milos Forman, on all of his films made in Czechoslovakia including A Blonde in Love (1965) and The Firemen's Ball (1967). He made his debut with the short A Boring Afternoon (1964), which looked at the lives of soccer fans. His feature debut is a key film of the Czech New Wave, Intimate Lighting (1965), a tragicomic tale of two musicians facing up to their lost dreams. The film captured international attention for its gentle story of everyday life and use of music, winning two awards from the U.S. National Society of Film Critics. Passer's success on home ground was cut short when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. He moved to the United States where he has lived and worked ever since.
"One of the ten films that have most affected me." Krzyzstof Kieslowski
Director: Ivan Passer
1965
Czechoslovakia
71 min
35mm
PG
In Czech with English subtitles
3 August 2010 (Tuesday), 7:30 pm
National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre
93 Stamford Road Singapore 178897
Free admission but members only -- flash your membership card to go in. You may bring up to 2 guests if you hold a SFS Reel membership card. Non-members may sign up at the door -- we will issue membership on the spot. No tickets will be sold. Free seating.
Intimate Lighting is a dramatic comedy that charts the course of a music, beer, and slivovitz-fuelled weekend visit by a town mouse to a country mouse. Petr is a professional soloist who, along with his free-spirited mistress, Stepa, arrives at the provincial home of his old friend from the music academy, nicknamed Bambas, who is weighed down by the responsibilities of the post of Head of the local music school and the demands of family. The film's pace of gentility proliferates as various personal interactions ensue upon the arrival of Bambas' guests. The gentle flood of ironic contrasts, glaringly offered by the film, is witty and affectionate, rather than knowing or moralistic.
Rich in amusing little incidents, and sometimes surreal quotidian details, Intimate Lighting unassumingly sets up its contrast between town and country, young and old, with the feel of a modern day fairy-tale. Like all true classics it is so sharply anchored in its time and place that it cannot help but speak, if softly, to viewers far away in every sense.
About the Director Ivan Passer
Ivan Passer started out in the film industry as a scriptwriter, and worked as assistant director to fellow Czech director, Milos Forman, on all of his films made in Czechoslovakia including A Blonde in Love (1965) and The Firemen's Ball (1967). He made his debut with the short A Boring Afternoon (1964), which looked at the lives of soccer fans. His feature debut is a key film of the Czech New Wave, Intimate Lighting (1965), a tragicomic tale of two musicians facing up to their lost dreams. The film captured international attention for its gentle story of everyday life and use of music, winning two awards from the U.S. National Society of Film Critics. Passer's success on home ground was cut short when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. He moved to the United States where he has lived and worked ever since.
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