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The Journey to Kafiristan
(Die Reise nach Kafiristan) saturday may 4 7:00 pm Screening $11 - COLONY THEATRE |
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It's 1939 and Europe braces for war. In an old Ford, writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach and ethnologist Ella Maillart embark on a road trip that will take them from Geneva, Switzerland to Kabul, Afghanistan, crossing Turkey and the desert-heart of Persia. More than mere geographic travel, the journey in this film is also one of forbidden desire and emotional self-discovery. Annemarie is on her own personal flight from morphine addiction. Ella, keen to enhance her career as a published scholar, is in search of a mythic tribe of nomads who live in the caves of the Kafiristan Valley. It's a dangerous time and place for two women to travel alone together, and the trip forces Annemarie and Ella ever closer, exploring exotic cultures and their own shifting feelings for one another. Based on the actual diary kept by the real-life Schwarzenbach, the film is erotically charged and breathtakingly photographed - the two women's simmering desire fills every ravishing vista they traverse. As Annemarie, Jeanette Hain is mesmerizingly androgynous, driving through the desert with a cigarette dangling from her lips, swimming nude across a lake, and seducing a Turkish ambassador's wife to the strains of Lecuona's Cuban Boys' Tabú. Bringing to mind the dreamy erotic landscapes of The English Patient and The Sheltering Sky, this is a movie that is stylishly faithful to the period and a deserving winner of the International Independent Film Critics Jury Award at the 2001 Locarno Film Festival.
In German with English subtitles.
Director Fosco Dubini will attend the screening and discuss his film with the audience.
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