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SMHEC Cinema Series Continues Jan. 12

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The World Cinema Series being presented at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center in California, Maryland, will feature “Wild Tales” (2014) by director Damian Szifron at 6:30 pm Jan. 12, 2017.

There is free admission to the cinema series.

The international films shown at the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center have won rave reviews.

A review of the film from rogerebert.com says, “Multi-story feature films are not the happiest of genres, for reasons that are usually very apparent. For one, having to conclude one story and start another, over and over, interrupts the dream-like flow that most moviegoers expect of features. For another, unevenness is almost built into the form: some stories will be better than others, perhaps especially when several filmmakers are involved.

“All of these inherent drawbacks help explain why Argentina’s ‘Wild Tales’ comes as such an extraordinary surprise. Perhaps the best multi-story feature this reviewer has ever seen, the Sony Classics release, a nominee for this year’s Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar, deserves to become a serious art-house hit in the US thanks to its skill in deftly overcoming the form’s usual deficits, for a result that feels as amazingly cohesive as it is relentlessly clever and entertaining.”

The cinema series showings have included:

“Son of Saul” (2015), from Hungary, a Holocaust film focusing on one man’s quest to find humanity during the horrors of his job in a concentration camp, and “The Intouchables” (2011) by directors Oliver Nakache and Eric Toledano. ast fall, the series presented such films as “Ida” (2013), a Polish drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski; “Micmacs” (2009), a comedy from French writer and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet; “Leviathan” (2014), a drama from Russian writer and director Andrey Zvyagintsev; and “Where Do We Go Now?” (2011) from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki.

SMHEC is at 44219 Airport Road in California, MD 20619; 301-737-2500.

The next SMHEC open house will be 4 to 7 pm April 5, 2017.

To learn more about the Southern Maryland Higher Education Center, visit their Leader Member page.

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