SPANISH MOVIE NIGHT

La Lengua de las Mariposas (Butterfly, 1999)

Jose Luis Cuerda’s film mourns the Spain destroyed by civil conflict by remembering it through the enchanted eyes of a small boy. Moncho (played by Manuel Lozano) is just old enough to begin attending school. The son of the Republican Ramon and his devout Nationalist wife, Rosa, Moncho is blissfully unaware of the tense, political undercurrent that runs beneath his family and his country. Instead, he is content to while away his days in the idyllic countryside of a small town in northern Spain’s region of Galicia. There he divides his time between following his older brother’s exploits in a local big band and chasing butterflies with his compassionate schoolteacher and mentor Don Gregorio (played by Fernando Fernán Gomez).

Cycle: Five Decades of Spanish Cinema

Monday, March 2nd @ Café Istanbul

7pm – Free Admission