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Foreign Film Movie & Discussion


Adult and Senior / Free for All -
Adult Enrichment 2024-2025

Join fellow film fans in the Little Theater at Lenox to watch and discuss engaging and thought-provoking foreign films. We'll view the movie and then have time for focused discussion led by Lisa Kjellander from the SLP Library. Sponsored by Friends of the St. Louis Park Library. The movies in February:

February 4: My Life As A Dog (2003) Sweden
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.

February 11: Faraw! Mother of Dunes (2016) Mali
Zamiatou is the mother of two quarrelsome boys and a depressed teenage girl. She is also the wife of a man arrested for political reasons who returned from prison mentally and physically destroyed. She struggles hard to survive in a poor and desolate area. She is ready to face anything to keep the family alive except prostituting her beautiful daughter.

February 18: Perfect Days (2024) Japan
Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through his small exchanges with those around him and with the city itself. Director Wenders crafts a serenely minimalist ode to the miracle that is the here and now.

February 25: The Crime Is Mine (2024) French
After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom with her lawyer roommate. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits, until the truth comes out.

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Oct 1: The Duke (2022) Great Britain
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly.

Oct 8: Amour (2012) France
A touching tale of a loving couple whose unbreakable bonds of marriage are tested by life's greatest challenge.

Oct 15: About Elly (2009) Iran
With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college pals decide to reunite on a weekend by the Caspian Sea. Sepideh has brought along Elly, her daughter's kindergarten teacher, in hopes of setting her up with recently divorced Ahmad. But seemingly trivial lies, which start accumulating at the seashore, suddenly swing round and come back full force when one afternoon Elly suddenly vanishes.

Oct 22: Andhadhun (2019) India
A blind pianist's life is turned upside down by a series of mysterious events, and a crime that he did not witness.

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Instructor

Lisa Kjellander


I received an undergraduate degree from Hamline University, my Masters of Library Science from Dominican University (River Forest, IL), and a Master's of Business Administration from St. Thomas University. I have been a librarian at the St. Louis Park Library for 24 years.

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  Lisa Kjellander


Lenox Community Center : Little Theater
Tuesday, Feb 4
6:00 - 8:30 PM

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Lenox Community Center : Little Theater
Tuesday, Feb 11
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Lenox Community Center : Little Theater
Tuesday, Feb 18
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Lenox Community Center : Little Theater
Tuesday, Feb 25
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