Screen/Society--NC Latin American Film Festival 2018--"El Rey del Once | The Tenth Man" [2pm matinee]

Sunday, October 14, 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
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2018 N.C. Latin American Film Festival:

El Rey del Once | The Tenth Man
(Daniel Burman, 2016, 88 min, Argentina, in Spanish, Hebrew, and Yiddish w/ English subs, Digital)

After many years away, Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) is summoned by his distant father to his childhood home in the bustling Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires, known as El Once. Over the course of seven days, during the vibrant holiday of Purim, Ariel seeks to reconnect with his father, who runs a Jewish charity and is regarded as a big macher in the close-knit community, but was frequently absent due to his obligation to fulfill the Jewish quorum of having 10 men present at all funerals. It’s from this theological conundrum that the film derives not just its English title but also its momentum as Ariel grapples with his religious upbringing and the ways it informed his relationship with his father.

Director Daniel Burman (All In, TFF 2012) returns with The Tenth Man, continuing to wrestle with notions of identity, home and the intricacies of the father-son relationship. This well-observed comedy is at once a heartfelt valentine to the El Once district, Burman’s own Jewish upbringing and his continuing desire to use cinema as a means of self-exploration.

"The Tenth Man is a low-key charmer, an unlooked-for combination of Jane Austen and Isaac Bashevis Singer. With a twist of Buenos Aires thrown into the mix." - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Sponsored by the Duke-UNC Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Office of Global Affairs, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)


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Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.

Parking Info:  https://artscenter.duke.edu/parking/

Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater