Downtown Huntsville Library
Winter Dreams: An International Film Series
Monday, November 25, 2024 5:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
In a fantastical city, a strongman teams up with a streetwise girl to find his missing brother, who has been kidnapped, along with numerous other children, and taken to a mad scientist’s offshore lair, where a man born without the ability to dream plans to harvest the children’s dreams for his own.
From directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro (Delicatessen) and starring Ron Perlman (Hellboy); Jeunet would go on to win critical and popular acclaim (and two Academy Award nominations) for the film Amelie.
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)