Foreign Film Movie & Discussion

Join fellow film fans in the Little Theater at Lenox to watch and discuss engaging and thought-provoking foreign films. We'll view the movie and then have time for focused discussion led by Lisa Kjellander from the St. Louis Park Library. Sponsored by Friends of the St. Louis Park Library.

Oct. 20: Brief Encounters (1967) Russian

Through an intricate play of flashbacks and shifting perspectives, Brief Encounters reveals the tangled romantic triangle that connects a hard-nosed city planner, her free-spirited geologist husband, and the young woman from the countryside whom she hires as her housekeeper. Blending observational realism with striking New Wave-style experimentation, Encounters crafts a wryly perceptive study of two very different women bound by chance and each navigating her own career, dreams, and disappointments.

Oct. 27: Cairo Station (1958) Egypt

A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.

Nov. 10: Victims of Sin/Víctimas del pecado (1951) Mexico

A treasure of Mexico's cinematic golden age, this deliriously plotted blend of gritty crime film, heart-tugging maternal melodrama, and mambo musical is a dazzling showcase for iconic star Ninón Sevilla. She brings fierce charisma and fiery strength to her role as a rumbera, a female nightclub dancer who gives up everything to raise an abandoned boy, whom she must protect from his ruthless gangster father.

Nov. 17: The Teacher’s Lounge/Das Lehrzimmer (2023) Germany

An idealistic middle school teacher who advocates for a student accused of stealing becomes embroiled in conflict when she becomes the target of a theft herself.

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