Downtown Huntsville Library
Winter Dreams: An International Film Series
Monday, December 2, 2024 5:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Adrift amidst the political turmoil of 1960s Hong Kong, a man reflects on his past (and current) mistakes in love though a series of yearly Christmas Eve encounters; along the way, he channels his hopes and fears into a science fiction story about a mysterious place called “2046,” as his present, his past, and the futuristic realm of 2046 intertwine.
2046 was written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai and stars Tony Leung, two of the most acclaimed and iconic figures in Hong Kong film. Before they worked together on 2046, Wong and Leung worked together on many films, including Chungking Express, Happy Together (for which Wong won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival), and In the Mood for Love (for which Leung won Best Actor at Cannes, and in which he plays the character he would go on to play in 2046 at an earlier stage in his life).
Winter Dreams (Through Eyes of Wonder)
A series of films about dreams, both literal and figurative – hopes, reveries, desires, ambitions – and about seeing the world through eyes of wonder; in some, the dreamer is youthful and naïve, while in others worn down by experience and struggling valiantly to see the world through a different lens. Though the dreams (and the worlds from which their dreamers come) vary wildly, from the fantastical to the earthbound, those dreams lie at the heart of each film: a dream of finding real magic in a mundane world, a dream of finding friendship and a place to belong, a dream of finding a family and happiness in the midst of hardship, a dream of finding love and escaping the past, and a dream…of being able to dream at all.
November 25: The City of Lost Children (France, 1995)
December 2: 2046 (Hong Kong, 2004)
December 9: Shoplifters (Japan, 2018)