WATERVILLE — The Maine Film Center’s Monday Night Movie Series: Revolutions will feature a one-time screening of “May Fools” at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 19, at the Waterville Opera House.
The French director Louis Malle, “Atlantic City, Au Revoir Les Enfants,” deals with the possible coming of revolution obliquely, as a warmly human comedy, in the pastoral, spring 1968-set “May Fools.”
“You feel in its images a sense of sunny embrace, a feeling of comfort and leisure and warm sensuality. You absorb it, the way you do the dappled light in the paintings of Renoir, or a clear, vivid day with a blanket laid out in the grass and wine rising in your blood. You bask in it. With the gathering of a clan for a Matriarch’s funeral, the world teeters as precariously on the edge of revolution as the rest of the country. Everywhere, change is in the air. For a moment, they all lose their inhibitions. Picnicking under a tree, they drink wine and smoke pot and let their fantasies soar. And in that idyllic instant, something new seems to be dawning” — Washington Post.
Tickets are $9 or $5 with student ID and can be purchased in advance at www.mainefilmcenter.org or at the box office. The Waterville Opera House is located at 1 Common St.. For more information, call 861-8138.
Monday Night Movies is a monthly 35mm film series held at the Waterville Opera House from October through April. Each year, a different theme is chosen, around which a selection of cinematic treasures is programed, exhibited in the glory of celluloid. Additional screenings include “Malcolm X” on Jan. 16, “Zero For Conduct” and “The Red Balloon” on Feb. 13, “I Am Cuba” on March 6, and “Duck, You Sucker” on April 17. The Monday Night Movies: Revolutions series is sponsored by Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities and Colby College Cinema Studies.
The Maine Film Center is a nonprofit organization devoted to strengthening Maine culture through education, dialogue, and the celebration of film and art. Programs include the Maine International Film Festival, the operation of Railroad Square Cinema, and special events and series such as Monday Night Movies.
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