The Film Institute will show the sixth movie of their season next week.
The next international film in the Film Institute’s series is an Indian film about an unexpected friendship.
The screening of The Lunchbox is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday in Kerr-McGee Auditorium in the Meinders School of Business. Admission is free.
“It will be a crowd pleaser,” said Dr. Harbour Winn, director of the Center for Interpersonal Studies through Film and Literature. “It is friendly to people who are not aficionados of film.”
Based on audience surveys, Winn picks eight international films from different countries to show for the series. Each film centers around a common theme. This year’s theme is “the search for meaning and value.” The Lunchbox was one of the two most requested films.
The movie’s plot centers around a housewife named “Ila.” She sends an elaborately prepared lunch to her husband at work, but it gets delivered to a different man by mistake. He receives notes from this wife to her husband and eventually starts writing back. An unexpected friendship blossoms.
It is a romantic film, but in a different way, Winn said.
A post-screening discussion will follow the film. Amrita Sen, professor of English, will help lead the discussion.
One student said he enjoys staying for the discussions.
“Whenever possible, I like to stay for the discussion after each film,” said Matthew Hester, film production junior. “The screenings bring together a very diverse group of individuals, and hearing what each person thought of the movie both artistically and culturally helps bring clarity to my own opinions.”
There are two remaining films in the institute’s season. They will both honor the season’s theme of “Man Searching for Meaning,” which Winn says is intended to help audiences understand suffering.
- Feb. 21, they will show Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, which follows the relationships between middle class families in Iran.
- March 6, they will show Adrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan, which deals with political corruption in Russia.
“If you view film as an art form, like a great poem or a great novel, you’re cheating yourself if all you see are Penn Square Mall showings,” Winn said. “When you see a great international film, you’re really entering into another world. You’re looking at the world from another perspective with different cultural textures.”
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