The Cinefamily (Venue Partner)
611 N Fairfax Avenue
323.655.2510
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Intimate Lighting
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Saturday Feb 13, 2010 (7:30pm)
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$10
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Watching Intimate Lighting is like having drinks with an old, rarely seen friend on a warm summer night -- after some gentle laughs (too mild to ache one's belly) and a wistful reminisce or two, it's off to bed in a warm and drunken shroud of soft, sweet melancholy. After co-writing Loves of a Blonde and The Fireman's Ball for Milos Forman, Ivan Passer directed this quotidian comedy centered around a brief semi-professional visit between two such friends; one is a professional musician, the other an amateur, and together they will play in a local concert. The "city mouse/country mouse" storytelling is deceptive artless and endlessly pleasing. Amusing incidents, observed absurdities, and other soft-sold bits and pieces of comic business all swirl around in constant orchestration. Music seems to imbue everything; even men peeing against a wall, or the sounds of wives snoring is conducted in graceful and humorous rhythms. With its small cast, a bucolic setting, and the slightest of stories -- more of an anecdote, really -- Passer has created not so much a pastoral symphony, but a chamber piece. One you can enjoy time and time again, as the sun sets on another day.
Dir. Ivan Passer, 1965, 35mm, 71 min.
