Summer International Film Club
The Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics is organizing its first Summer International Film Club. Online meetings will be held weekly May 21 through June 23 to talk informally about selected movies. All of the movies are available on Kanopy, a streaming service graciously provided by the WVU Libraries, and can be watched ahead of the live Zoom discussion.For security reasons, if you would like to receive updates and reminders, including the invitation for each week’s Zoom meeting, please register.
Schedule of Events
The Farewell (2019)
Tuesday, June 9
5 p.m.
A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live
and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she
dies.
La grande bellezza [The Great Beauty] (2013)
La grande bellezza [The Great Beauty] (2013)
Thursday, June 18
5 p.m.
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of
Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep
looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd,
exquisite beauty.
Victoria (2015)
Victoria (2015)
Tuesday, June 23
5 p.m. A young Spanish woman who has recently moved to Berlin finds
her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with
his friends reveals a dangerous secret.