"Fallen Leaves" Screening and Discussion
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Join the International Affairs Dr. Robert Daily Annual Film Series and the Center for Global Engagement’s Engage Your World Speaker Series event. It will take place on Wednesday, March 27 with the screening at 6 p.m. and discussion directly after in The Globe Auditorium.
Sweet-souled in story, scalpel-sharp in filmmaking precision, this enchanting love story from Finnish virtuoso Aki Kaurismäki circles around two financially strapped Helsinkians who keep finding and losing one another in a world that seems to be falling apart. As with the greatest of Kaurismäki’s films, everyday details register as grand, meaningful cinematic gestures. This filmmaker has scrupulously carved another fictive universe out of a handful of specific, vivid locations, yet Fallen Leaves very much takes place in the world we’re living in, which makes its surrender to hope all the more affecting.
This event is sponsored by Dr. Robert Dailey’s Annual Film Series Grant to the International Affairs Program. This event is free and open to the public. The screening will begin at 6 p.m. with a discussion and reception following the screening.
This event also counts toward one of the intercultural event requirements for the Global Citizenship Certificate.