"Engrossing, enriching, and elegant!" - Boston Globe
"Passionate, riveting, magnificent! One of the year's best!" - New York Post
"An erotically charged impassioned work! Assumpta Serna is luminous!" - Village Voice
I, THE WORST OF ALL [YO, LA PEOR DE TODAS]
September 19 (Friday)
Film screening — 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus
September 19 (Friday)
Film screening — 7:30 p.m., Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus
Directed by María Luisa Bemberg | Argentina, 1990, 105 minutes, color, in Spanish with English subtitles. Starring Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio
Based on a biography by Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, this film tells the story of the embattled 17th century nun, Sor Juana, who would come to be regarded as the mother of Mexican literature.
Based on a biography by Nobel laureate Octavio Paz, this film tells the story of the embattled 17th century nun, Sor Juana, who would come to be regarded as the mother of Mexican literature.
Screened in conjunction with an appearance by distinguished translator Edith Grossman (see September 23 Visiting Writers Series listing), who presents her new collection of works by Sor Juana.
Strictly Film School review: http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/bemberg.html
More about the film series: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/cfs.html#.VBBjWl_D_s0
More about our upcoming visit with Edith Grossman, translator into English of Sor Juana, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Octavio Paz, Don Quixote, and numerous classics of Spanish literature: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/grossman_edith14.html
