The Country Teacher - Friday March 12th

March 12th, 2010
Showtime: 7 p.m.
Doors: 6:30 p.m.
Place: Wright Opera House
Director: Bohdan Sláma
Runtime: 113 min.
Categories: Drama, Czech Republic

Eric Notes: This is this year's Movie Club selection from the film festival circuit. This Czech film was an official selection in Toronto and Venice and a winner of the Czech Oscar®. It is a beautifully crafted film. Special thanks to the film's distributor, Film Movement, for helping to make this screening in Ouray possible.


Synopsis:
A gifted and well-qualified young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. The teacher has no romantic interest in the woman but they quickly form a strong friendship, each recognizing the other's uncertainties, hopes and longing for love.

When the teacher's ex-boyfriend comes to visit from the city, he quickly realizes that nobody in the village knows that the teacher is gay and harbors a secret affection for the teenage boy. His jealous actions set in motion a series of events that will test the inner strength and compassion of the teacher, the woman and her son to a breaking point. A beautifully shot, powerfully acted, profoundly moving story of desire, responsibility, forgiveness and the need to belong, from the internationally-acclaimed director of Something Like Happiness and Wild Bees.
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Admission: Everyone is welcome at $7.50 per ticket. 2010 Movie Club members may use their punch cards.




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