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March 16, 2007
25th Annual Film and Lecture Series in March
The last four Fridays in March, the Baltimore Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis will be at The Baltimore Museum of Art at Charles and 31st Streets to present its film lecture series. This year's theme is:
Developmental Challenges, Childhood to Adulthood
- Tsotsi
- The Man Who Loved Women
- Men of Honor
- The Return
Films are chosen for this series because they are psychologically perceptive and stir the emotions and curiosity of the discussants.
Looking through the lens of psychoanalysis enriches the viewers' appreciation of the film, and stimulates psychological insight into the emotions and thoughts evoked by the images and sounds from the screen.
For further information, call 410.792.8060 or 301.470.3635, or visit www.bwanalysis.org. Read on for more information about the movies, including links to trailers when available.
TSOTSI (2006)
Rated R -- South Africa
Director: Gavin Hood
Discussant: Silvia Bell, Ph.D.
Friday, March 9, 7:30 p.m.
TRAILER
A ruthless thug (Tsotsi) shoots a woman as she desperately tries to impede him from stealing her car. He drives off and discovers the woman's cherished infant still in the back seat. Drawn to this beloved vulnerable baby from whom he cannot be parted, Tsotsi begins a
transformational journey into his own past that reawakens his humanity. As if the healthy baby provides him with reassurance about his own infancy, Tsotsi revisits his traumatic childhood and becomes witness to the damaging impact of his early experience. Violence
gives way to compassion as he reconnects with his capacity to love. The movie won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (1977)
Not Rated -- France
Director: Francois Truffaut
Discussant: Leon Levin, M.D.
Friday, March, 16, 7:30 p.m.
TRAILER
The age-old dances of seduction and being seduced are sharply observed with wit and humor in Truffaut's classic New Wave film. Bertrand, a bachelor in his early forties, writes his memoir evoking the many variations of the dance which he has lived out with the various women in his life. What fuels this pattern of flitting like a butterfly from one woman to the next? Is this a dance of joy, or something else? Bertrand is a complex self-reflective person whom we can recognize as very human and yet, at the same time, driven.
MEN OF HONOR (2000)
Rated R -- USA
Director: George Tillman, Jr.
Discussant: Marilyn Martin, M.D.
Friday, March 23, 7:30 p.m.
TRAILER
Racism and a promise made to his father propel Carl Brashear to battle forward in this true story about the Navy's first black Master Diver. Billy Sunday, the racist alcoholic diving instructor, who is determined to destroy Brashear, discovers that his own salvation is linked to that of his nemesis. Internalized rage, so often the downfall of recipients of injustice, is successfully channeled by both men. Viewers may ask themselves, isn't there a point where the price for a dream is too much?
THE RETURN (2003)
Not Rated -- Russia
Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Discussant: Noreen Honeycutt, Ph.D.
Friday, March 30, 7:30 p.m.
TRAILER
In this gripping Russian drama, two teenage brothers face the return of the father who had abandoned the family twelve years before. The boys' internal management of the loss of their father and their accompanying fantasies about him emerge as they relate to the real
man. During a week of father/son "vacation," the boys are challenged to deal with powerful conflicts provoked by the father's abusive behavior. Their adolescent struggle to choose between boyhood and manhood and between identification and self-preservation come to a head in a harsh and violent confrontation. The film has won numerous awards, including five at the Venice Film Festival.
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