Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
415.978.2787
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Still from Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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May 8, 2008 – May 10, 2008
Daily (7:30pm)
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$8
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is Russian director Sergei Parajanov's eccentric take on the Romeo and Juliet story. Set in a Carpathian village, the film tracks the star-crossed love between Ivan and Marichka — the daughter of Ivan's father's killer. Marichka accidentally drowns, and though Ivan eventually moves on, his lover's presence haunts him relentlessly. The color-happy director saturates his shots with reds and yellows during the forbidden romance, and fades to gloomy earth tones after Marichka's death; the delirious camerawork only augments the feeling of being in a faraway, mysterious land.
