Marguerite

Larry Soll closes out the Summer Film Series with this note and final movie…

Fellow Film Buffs,

Well all good things must come to an end and this will be the last Tuesday of our 2016 summer series. As announced last week, the Theatre has agreed to host the Summer Film Series again next year. There is much work to be done between now and then and part of that involves you. Here are your assignments:

1. Please talk to your friends and if they are interested get their email addresses to sjctfilm [@] rockisland.com. The more people who attend, the more likely this will become an ongoing series.
2. Send suggestions of films you see or have seen that you think would be outstanding additions for next year’s schedule.
3. Complete the survey that you will receive within the next two weeks. Your answers will help us make the series even more enjoyable next year.

Single admissions are $8 and $5 for anyone under 25. Our popcorn maven has perfected his recipe and our “bottomless box for only $2” is the bargain of the year. 10% discounts on food at both Vinny’s and The Bluff will apply to those with a ticket or a punch card. Special pre-theatre pricing is also available at Coho restaurant.

One last thing, I was unable to find a website for the group accepting contributions for the “Landfill Harmonic” community. So sorry.

Here is a description of the final film:

September 6 – Marguerite (2015) Rated R for brief nudity and scene of drug use. 129 minutes Subtitled
Marguerite is based on the life of Florence Foster Perkins, a New York socialite (in this film, changed to a French countess) who fancies herself an opera singer, but can’t stay in tune or hit a high note. She is a complete disaster, but she has no idea. To her ears, she sounds like Maria Callas and she is so sweet-natured and so devoted to music that no one will give her the bad news. This is, of course, the set-up for a comedy, and “Marguerite” can fairly be classified as such — there are, indeed, laughs. But the laughter is complicated. “Marguerite” is just as often painful and at times almost excruciating to watch. And there’s something weirdly transcendent about the film, too, because we’re witnessing someone in pursuit of the sublime, who is devoted to something beyond herself that she can apprehend but cannot reach.

By pure coincidence, The Palace is screening “Florence Foster Jenkins”, starring Meryl Streep as Florence Foster Perkins. I strongly encourage you to see this film as well. The two treatments of the same subject are quite interesting.

Larry Soll
Film Series Coordinator
San Juan Community Theatre

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