In its stop in the municipality of Teguise, the Summer Traveling Cinema will offer to those who come to La Caleta de Famara, two films that promise to stir emotions. These are “Fried Green Tomatoes” and “The Lives of Others”, which will be screened on August 9 and 10 in the parking lot next to the church, starting at 9:00 p.m.
As usual, the Tenique Cultural association will promote a small discussion at the end of the broadcasts, in order to collectively address the messages and values of the stories. These dialogues have been extraordinarily well received in previous sessions, with numerous people participating at the end of the screening. In addition, those who wish can enjoy a package of popcorn to multiply the best taste of the activity.
This cultural proposal, with free and open access, is possible thanks to the sponsorship of the Cabildo de Lanzarote and the Teguise City Council.
Fried Green Tomatoes. Friday, August 9, 9 p.m.
Evelyn (Kathy Bates), a mature woman who lives frustrated by her weight and by the insensitivity and simplicity of her husband, casually meets Ninny (Jessica Tandy) in a nursing home, an old woman who gradually tells her a beautiful story that occurred in a small town in Alabama. The story becomes more and more fascinating: it revolves around the great friendship between two women (Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker) and the mysterious murder of the husband of one of them.
Very entertaining story that mixes with great success small doses of melodrama, humor, tenderness and intrigue to achieve one of the great successes of North American cinema of the nineties. Although it was going to be a women's film aimed at an adult female audience, Fried Green Tomatoes conquered all types of audiences for its sense of justice and its praise of loyalty and friendship.
The Lives of Others. Saturday, August 10, 9 p.m.
We are in the middle of the communist period, in the German Democratic Republic, in 1984. Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), a lonely man, is a competent officer of the intelligence service of the Stasi, the feared secret police of the GDR. However, when he is entrusted with spying on the couple formed by a prestigious writer (Sebastian Koch) and a popular actress (Martina Gedenk), he cannot even imagine the extent to which this mission will influence his conception of life and the world.
The Lives of Others meant a considerable international boom for a cinematography, the German one, quite little known then. A large part of the film's success must be found in the friendly portrait it makes of its two protagonists and the twist that the behaviors of both will undergo. It swept in 2006 in all film festivals as the best non-English or foreign language film; apart from its nomination at the Golden Globes, it won the Oscar, the Cesar, the New York Critics Circle Award, the Guldbagge, the Los Angeles Critics Association Award and the BAFTA.
